Las Vegas Raider Maxx Crosby Shows Off His Tattoos | GQ Sports

all right y'all you know what I'm here for let's get into [Music] it first two tattoos so I took my brother's ID I was 17 years old it was just my last name in the year I was born and I got a tatted on my wrist and then I got my great grandma on my forearm I got this from my mom my great grandma was super close to her and um she passed away as when I was young so that's why I want to get it you know for my mom but also her if you look at my rookie year my sleeve was terrible like it had no it wasn't together cuz I I literally would just get like one random tattoo and then another one and so yeah you know for me I always thought like okay I'm going to get one sleeve I'm going to leave one clean and right now it looks clean but I've already started my second sleeve this took time um I had a I had a tattoo artist who kind of meshed it all together um at the time um it just a lot of things that mean a lot to me this is one of my favorites to turn pain in the power I feel like it really relates to you know my story still a recovering addict um gone through a lot of a lot of in my life so this is like one of one that I see in the mirror all the time and it represents a lot for me and then I could go on and on you know I got time is now that's like the little digital clock I got that from D'Angelo Russell so I'm not going to you know steal his swag but he's got like a bigger one I got my sobriety date um right here if I had any type of inkling to pick up a drink or smoke or anything like that it's the first thing ID see and that's why I got a triangle over here so it's like first thing I see on my hands is my sobriety dates um obviously got Eastern Michigan um my number that I wore there XXX SAS own tattoo when he passed away he had this t on his face and forehead so I got that one on me um that was like right before the draft you know I got a lot of roses Rachel Rose my wife I got Ella Rose my daughter roses are like huge to me I got rose gold on everything like that's like number one thing to me got the Raider Tad on the back of me I got that Raiders I got drafted I got the Mad Max tattoo on me um the fans obviously gave me the nickname so I got that like right before the season started um they started calling me that and like training camp and stuff like that one of my favorite quotes my Charles Woodson he told me that there's 31 teams in the NFL and there's one Raider Nation and like we're different we do things a little bit differently you know we do our way and uh I feel like that's what being a Raider is is just being like that Outlaw in the league and like I feel like we're starting to bring that back so uh it's been it's been great to see I I really didn't know what I wanted on my hand cuz like that's like a big deal you know what I mean you rock a suit like that's the first thing you're going to see is the hand so I was like we just end up rolling with the skeleton so I I don't know if I'm not going to do it on this hand but I got to figure out what I'm going to do on the other hand but yeah they he definitely killed that I'm big into the rap like my mom is born and raised in Seven Mile Detroit like so she put us on like Eminem and like I just seen rappers all the time being tatted up and I was like I want to get my torso done like everybody gets their back but they're scared to get the front done so I'm like I'm going to get the front done first you know for me I had so many ideas and I'm like it's a big ass canvas so for me I wanted to you know I wanted to do it the right way finding the right person was was hard I met this dude uh named Ortega in in Arizona and I seen him do like CD lamb and a couple other uh NFL guys and NBA guys he ended up coming out to the house they have a full team like five people I did two sessions in a row was like 13 hours and they did my whole whole torso I have my certain Inspirations like the Michael Jordans the Kobes the Ali's like those are the guys I look up to in in a lot of different ways and so I wanted to get them on you know obviously a tribute to them interviews things like that like that's sort of the mental side of the game um I've learned the most from those three so and then be legendary I got that on there it's my favorite quote of all time more roses as well but the most important one is my daughter Ella Rose I got her right here on my chest um she's number one um for obvious reasons but you know I I thought I had you know had all the inspiration motivation in the world but like once I had my daughter like it it's at a whole different level just from a mental standpoint um she comes first no matter what so for me I had to get her tatted and then you know obviously me and my wife probably going to have more kids I got room on my back so I can't leave them out so so I got the neck before I got my whole torso tatted so when I had the neck tattoo everyone thought my whole body was tatted but it was just my neck I got the triangle on me and uh obviously it means the world I got triangles all over me it's represents sobriety and I got the back of my neck done as well it's kind of Conor McGregor inspiration but yeah another triangle at the top and then it's like the McGregor Vines going down but I definitely have a lot of lot of canvas left so I seen PJ Tucker I seen Canelo with the wings so I wanted like bigger a little bit bigger version of those I got obviously the Michigan Army I was born raised in Michigan till I was 10 I moved to Texas went to middle school and high school out in Texas so I got those I got the killer be kill the Nate Diaz quote one of my favorite quotes of all time I love this tattoo as well but the legs the reason why they're not because the thighs hurt like hell but this off season like I'm I'm getting my whole legs blasted so I plan on doing that the guy that did my torso and everything I'm having him do you know their whole team knock out my legs so I love my tattoos like it's a part of who I am it's kind of like its own story like of you know from the beginning where I came from they all got their own like history once they put it all together like I think it you know it's definitely it's come a long way

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Length: 5min 28sec (328 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 22 2023