Alex Chepeska, a dedicated Detroit Lions fan, is so confident in his team’s Super Bowl victory in 2024 that he got a Lions Super Bowl Champs 2024 tattoo last August. Despite concerns about jinxing the team, Chepeska is unfazed, citing the Lions’ exceptional season.
He believes in the team’s transformation under Coach Dan Campbell, and his enthusiasm is contagious.
“I don’t know, I just had a feeling,” Chepseka, 43, who lives in the Detroit metro area, tells PEOPLE. “I’ve never been so sure of something. I just knew they were going to go all the way, and I knew I had to get a tattoo of it before the season started. So I got it in August, a week before their first pre-season game.”
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As far as jinxing the team, he’s not too concerned:
“I’ve gotten some messages online from people who are like, what are you doing, you idiot? You’re going to jinx them! But I’m like, oh you think it’s a jinx? They’re having the best season of their lives! It’s the opposite of a jinx!”
Chepeska, a devoted Detroit Lions fan, conceived the idea for the Lions Super Bowl Champs 2024 tattoo midway through the last season when he sensed a significant improvement in the team’s performance.
“Look, I’ve loved the Lions my whole life, as much as you be a fan with the decades of ineptitude and the worst organization in the history of sports. My dad used to say, ‘Don’t get too attached to these guys. They’ll break your heart over and over.’ And they constantly did. Every season I’d get back on the bandwagon, get excited about them again again, and then would want to tear my hair out. But that’s the old Lions. They’re dead. This is the brand new Lions!”
While friends and family thought the tattoo was a bit eccentric, Chepeska remains confident and humorously suggests the tattoo might magically fade if they lose. In fact, he’s feeling very confident right now, and in a worst case scenario, he’ll just do a little edit on the Lions ink.
“They won’t,” he says confidently. “But IF they did, I assume the tattoo would just magically fade away, like Marty McFly’s pictures in Back to the Future.“
He’s joking of course. He says, “Nah, if it happens, I’ll just cross out 2024 and change it to 2025.”
He has a GoFundMe to attend the Super Bowl and hopes to witness his team’s success firsthand.
“I have a GoFundMe to help me get to the Bowl,” he says, noting that he’s hoping to raise $2K for the trip to Vegas and back. “I’m such a nervous wreck about this Sunday’s game. But if I’m there in Vegas and they win, I’ll expect them to carry me off on Dan Campbell’s shoulders,” he says with a laugh. “And then they’ll build a statue of me in the stadium, right next to Barry Sanders!”
Best of luck to all Lions fans.
