He boasts the Giants are “in my blood,” and now Long Island ironworker Jimmy (Giant Jim) Oliveira is wearing his Big Blue pride on his skin.
The 29-year-old football fanatic commemorated the team’s Super Bowl berth this week by getting his first tattoo ever — the word “Giants” in capital letters, underlined in red, on his right forearm.
“I’m the biggest Giants fan in the universe,” Oliveira, of Centereach, bellowed Tuesday as he visited Tattoo Lou‘s parlor in Selden.
“This Giants team is one for the ages. Now it will live forever on my body,” he said, as tattoo artist Joel MacDonald, a Jets fan, finished inking him up.
Oliveira — wearing an Eli Manning No. 10 jersey, Giants Reebok sneakers, Giants socks and a new Giants’ NFC Conference champs hat — didn’t even wince as he got the 1-by-3 inch tat.
“This is something I’ve been wanting to do my entire life,” he said. “After the pain the Giants endured, I can go through anything.”
The body art capped a day in which Oliveira learned he won two tickets to Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis on Feb. 5 in a Fathers.com online contest.
In an 86-second YouTube video his 7-year-old daughter, Gina Marie, entered for the contest, she vouched for her dad’s crazed allegiance to her and to the G-men.
“Every Sunday me and my Daddy go to church and then we get ready for the New York Giants game. It’s been our Sunday tradition ever since I was born,” Gina said in the video.
“We go crazy for the Giants,” Gina said. “Every year since I was 18 months old, daddy takes me to the first Giants game of the season. We eat, drink and breathe for the Big Blue.”
“When I heard I won those tickets I just began crying,” Oliveira said.
Of course he’s taking his daughter to the game, he said.
He predicted the Super Bowl will end the way the Giants’ last one did.
“I’m very confident we are going to win,” he said. “It’s been a great ride, but we’ve got to finish.”
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