# Athletes kissing biceps. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 10, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-kissing-biceps/673586 "2013-11-10T18:07:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-kissing-biceps/673586/1 "2013-11-10T18:07:31Z")
Where did that practice come from, and what does it mean? I’m not an athlete. Poets don’t do that. 😛 Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-kissing-biceps/673586/2 "2013-11-10T18:11:42Z")
First time I saw it was with Jesse “the body” Ventura. It means I got huge biceps and I love them. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-kissing-biceps/673586/3 "2013-11-10T18:26:57Z")
> [@Lanzy](#): > > First time I saw it was with Jesse “the body” Ventura. It means I got huge biceps and I love them. I think that’s where I first saw it too. Also Joe Montana, Colin Kaepernick, and others. Oh yeah, the WWF dude with “pythons”. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-kissing-biceps/673586/4 "2013-11-10T18:52:05Z")
Colin Kaepernick is more specifically kissing the tattoos on his arms. As he was becoming the starter in San Francisco, some idiot newspaper columnist wrote an opinion piece about how shameful it was for a role model quarterback to have visible tattoos, which only criminals have. The kissing move was Kaepernick’s response. His tattoos are all biblical references and verses. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-kissing-biceps/673586/5 "2013-11-10T19:46:54Z")
> [@Lanzy](#): > > First time I saw it was with Jesse “the body” Ventura. It means I got huge biceps and I love them. Was that before or after Thunderlips The Ultimate Male? ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Bisector](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@Black\_Bisector](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Bisector)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-kissing-biceps/673586/6 "2013-11-10T19:55:51Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > Where did that practice come from, and what does it mean? > I’m not an athlete. Poets don’t do that. 😛 > Peace, > mangeorge You poor poor man, you obviously didn’t get your tickets to the gun show. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-kissing-biceps/673586/7 "2013-11-10T20:54:35Z")
I could host a very small gun show of my own, which seems to confound many conservatives. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-kissing-biceps/673586/8 "2013-11-10T21:25:28Z")
[http://threewordphrase.com/muscles.htm](http://threewordphrase.com/muscles.htm) ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-kissing-biceps/673586/9 "2013-11-11T04:32:58Z")
“Kaepernicking” is the current usage, as based upon “Tebowing” and similar QB trademarks. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-kissing-biceps/673586/10 "2013-11-11T16:23:06Z")
I wonder how old the practice is. I remember a friend of mine doing it back in the mid 80s.