Ohio State coach Urban Meyer was understandably ecstatic after last night's rousing, electrifying and wholly unexpected shellacking of the Oregon Ducks in the national championship game.
With the victory, Meyer now has three national championships to his name - no small feat. He joins Alabama's Nick Saban as the only coaches to win a national title at two schools.
"The chase is complete," Meyer said, according to Yahoo! Sports. "These guys accepted their final mission and did it. ...This is a heck of a football team in scarlet and gray and I want to celebrate with the guys I love."
But for the clearly jubilant Meyer, last night's victory came with a sobering reminder - he promised his team, after their victory over Saban's Crimson Tide in the Sugar Bowl, Ohio State's first game of the College Football Playoff, that if they won the national championship, he'd get a tattoo.
"He promised us after we beat 'Bama in the locker room that if we won the next one, he'd get a tattoo," tight end Jeff Heuerman told USA Today Sports after the Buckeyes defeated the Ducks.
"I'll supervise it," Heuerman said. "Trust me. I'm going to be right next to him. The first thing that went through my head is, 'Coach Meyer's getting a tattoo.'"
Meyer, according to his players, didn't offer any specifics on where or when he'd get the tattoo, but he did say that Ohio State's Block 'O' logo could be a potential design.
"I'll be here bugging him about it until he gets it," defensive end Joey Bosa said. "I'll go with him (to the tattoo parlor). I've already got my Block O."
It seems like Meyer may bee stuck between a rock and a hard place here. As Bosa points out, one of the core value building blocks for the program is honesty.
"We have core values, and honesty is one of them, so he better not be lying," said Bosa.
