Die-hard Ravens fan Nic Cullison has gotten a tattoo after each victory this season. He has no regrets.

Before the Ravens location opener against the Kansas City Chiefs successful September, Nic Cullison made a gag to his wife, Naomi.

“I told her if they won, I would get the people tattooed connected me,” Cullison said.

After backmost Lamar Jackson’s flip into the extremity zone, rookie Odafe Oweh’s forced fumble, and the Ravens’ fourth-down conversion to seal a comeback victory, Naomi Cullison made definite her hubby lived up to his jest.

Naomi grabbed a tattoo weapon she got a fewer weeks prior, past tattooed the crippled people and day connected Nic’s thigh. When kicker Justin Tucker nailed a 66-yard tract extremity to bushed the Detroit Lions the pursuing week, Nic got different tattoo.

Now, with 8 Ravens wins and tattoos and counting, Nic Cullison has adorned himself arsenic the “Ravens tattoo guy.” His efforts person earned attraction connected societal media, arsenic good arsenic from Ravens players themselves.

“It’s conscionable entertaining,” Cullison said. “I messaged backmost and distant with [center] Bradley Bozeman and [wide receiver] Tylan Wallace, and they’re viewing my [Instagram] communicative each week, truthful it’s conscionable been a chill experience.”

With the Ravens enduring a five-game losing streak and hardly hanging successful the playoff contention contempt an 8-3 start, Cullison is disappointed with however the play unfolded but doesn’t regret getting the tattoos.

“This full happening was maine and my woman doing thing that my household and friends would deliberation is great,” helium said. “It’s decidedly been a amusive ride.”

Cullison grew up successful Joppatowne but serves successful the Navy and lives successful Oklahoma with Naomi and their 3-year-old daughter, Raelyn. He grew up a Ravens and Orioles instrumentality and said helium streams each Ravens game, nary substance what. In 2017, helium projected to Naomi successful the dugout astatine Camden Yards. They adjacent got matching Orioles tattoos.

Cullison has been getting tattoos since helium was 18. His arms are covered, including a tattoo dedicated to his father, who died of cancer, connected his close biceps.

“I was calved and raised successful the full Baltimore sports community,” Cullison said. “My dada was a die-hard Ravens fan. It [would] beryllium brainsick to spot him acquisition each this due to the fact that I cognize helium [would] beryllium loving it.”

Naomi Cullison, a licensed aesthetician, is not a nonrecreational tattoo creator but has a beardown passionateness for it. When Naomi was successful the Navy, she drew tattoo designs for her friends. After Naomi purchased a tattoo gun, she started utilizing it connected herself earlier designing tattoos destined for Nic’s dermis.

The greeting aft the Ravens rallied to bushed the Chiefs successful their location opener connected Sept. 19, Nic woke up to implicit 25,000 notifications connected his phone. Amid the countless Instagram and Twitter comments, immoderate radical criticized the tattoo’s deficiency of creativity. Naomi was not happy.

“The fewer [comments] that I saw lit a occurrence nether my [butt] and I’m amended than that,” Naomi said. “So I was like, you can’t plan it. It’s up to me.”

Since Nic is simply a shot junkie, Naomi asks him what benignant of plan helium wants. She would spell connected Google to look up the close stencils and logos. After Naomi sketches a design, she takes the tattoo gun, past goes to work. According to Nic, the process takes 2 to 3 hours aft Ravens wins.

“I’ve ne'er had to woody with immoderate [internet] trolls oregon thing similar that,” helium said of immoderate of the antagonistic comments. “But the 2nd week, they started getting slimmer. And the 3rd week they got slimmer. Now radical are waiting for it. [There’s] nary much antagonistic stuff.”

The inspiration down each of Nic’s tattoos is unique. After the Ravens defeated the Indianapolis Colts successful an overtime thriller successful Week 5, helium got “Let’s get this ‘B’” tatted connected him, successful notation to what Jackson told ESPN newsman Lisa Salters during the postgame interview.

When the Ravens defeated the Minnesota Vikings successful Week 9, Cullison wanted to marque amusive of the Vikings’ Skol chant. So, Naomi tatted “Let’s Skol Ravens” connected his thigh.

Nic’s astir caller tattoo, from the Ravens’ 16-10 triumph implicit the Cleveland Browns successful Week 12, said, “Refs 10 vs. Ravens 16.” He believes Browns choky extremity David Njoku’s receiving touchdown shouldn’t person counted.

The shot “literally bounced disconnected the ground, and they gave him a touchdown adjacent aft the review,” Nic said. “The lone crushed they had 10 points was due to the fact that of the [referees], truthful that’s wherefore I enactment that.”

In summation to Wallace and Bozeman, Jackson has noticed Nic’s unsocial mode of showing his fandom.

“That’s different,” Jackson said successful September. “We’ve conscionable got to support winning for him.”

Every Ravens tattoo is connected Nic’s close thigh.

Naomi said she feels similar a arrogant ma whenever a Ravens subordinate shows appreciation for Nic’s tattoos.

“I’ve ne'er met a much die-hard instrumentality of immoderate sport,” Naomi said. “It’s similar seeing him successful a candy store if helium was a small kid. It’s truthful cute.”

Even though the Ravens’ play hasn’t gone arsenic planned, Nic said helium is much than apt to proceed getting Ravens-themed tattoos successful the future.

“I person talked to my woman astir it,” helium said, “and I don’t deliberation we’re done yet.”