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SEC now insists it didn’t remove tattoos on Derrick Henry congratulatory pic
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Alabama running back Derrick Henry has tattoos.
That’s not a political statement or an indictment. It’s a fact.
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But when the SEC released its 2015 season awards, recognizing Henry as the conference’s Offensive Player of the Year, it congratulated the player on Twitter. His tattoos were conspicuously absent. Or so it seemed:
Congratulations, DERRICK HENRY, the 2015 SEC Offensive Player of the Year.#RollTidehttps://t.co/hYvG2p71gl pic.twitter.com/mnp9rew1Nn
— Southeastern Conference (@SEC) December 9, 2015
Responding to a flurry of criticism, the SEC finally defended itself on Thursday. The league says that it in fact did not intentionally use Adobe PhotoShop to remove the tattoos from Henry’s arm in the photo.
@Carvell_AJC Textured use of Crimson made tattoos less prominent on this particular photo. Many photos of award winners clearly show tattoos
— Southeastern Conference (@SEC) December 10, 2015
The SEC’s explanation is plausible. What interest would the conference have in spending time removing Henry’s tattoos from a Twitter photo, when the conference just advertised shot after shot of the tattoos to a huge national audience on CBS during the SEC championship game? A game in which Henry carried the ball 44 times?
In this case, at least, it appears that the zealous Twitter crowd got it wrong.
An itinerant journalist, Christopher has moved between states 11 times in seven years. Formally an injury-prone Division I 800-meter specialist, he now wanders the Rockies in search of high peaks.
