Celtics fan hoping this is the year he can finally correct inaccurate “2022 World Champions” tattoo

He said he has no regrets. “I mean, when I go to the beach…maybe sometimes,” he said.

Bienvenue talked with WBZ after he first got the tattoo during the Celtic’s run in the 2022 NBA finals. “This was a team of destiny,” he said back then.

Now he’s changed his tune. “Wasn’t destiny, I guess…but I was sure, I was a very sure senior in high school,” he said.

From hopeful fan to a meme

Now, his college buddies will never let him live it down. “The morning after we lost, I woke up and opened my phone, and the first thing I saw was a picture of me with a crying Jordan face edited on me,” he said. He had gone from a hopeful fan to a meme.

“It’s been a memory, good or bad, that I’ll have for the rest of my life and share with my kids someday,” he said. He doesn’t want to erase the 2022. “Maybe get a little asterisk, put a 4 and maybe you know, put some more Celtics stuff around it, more Celtics related tattoos.” 

This time he is promising Celtics Nation he will wait until the final score before he changes anything. “Last thing I need, is to get that 4, and something to go sideways,” he said.

But just in case, he said he put his tattoo artist on notice.

Christina Hager

Christina Hager is an Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter with the I-Team at WBZ-TV News. She has spent more than two decades covering major breaking news events across the country, including extensive daily coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.