WARNING: SPOILERS ahead for American Sports Story episode 6.
American Sports Storyepisode 6 “Herald Street” features Aaron Hernandez getting one of his most notable and potentially incriminating tattoos. Josh Rivera leads theAmerican Sports StorycastasAaron Hernandez, the former collegiate and NFL superstar tight endwho was convicted ofmurdering semi-pro football player Odin Lloydin 2015. Thefirst two episodes ofAmerican Sports Storycapture a basic understanding of Aaron Hernandez’s complicated upbringing and accelerated path to becoming a Florida Gator before joining the NFL’s New England Patriots in 2010.American Sports Storyportrays several NFL players, including Hernandez, Rob Gronkowski, Tom Brady, and Tim Tebow.
American Sports Storyepisode 3chronicles Hernandez’s celebrity status at theUniversity of Florida before he ultimately declared for the 2010 NFL Draft.American Sports Story episode 4chronicles more of the details of Hernandez’s transition from being the 2010John Mackey Award winnerto having his draft stock plummet ahead of the NFL Draft due to off-the-field concerns.American Sports Storyepisode 5chronicles Hernandez’s early days as a rookie on the New England Patriots and explores the influences of hisnew head coach Bill Belichickwhile episode 6 depicts aviolent shooting Hernandez was allegedly involved inwith his friend Sherrod.
Why Aaron Hernandez Got A “God Forgives” Tattoo: Meaning Explained
Hernandez got it just weeks before getting arrested for killing Odin Lloyd
American Sports Storyepisode 6 portrays Josh Rivera’s dramatized characterization of Aaron Hernandez getting a “God Forgives” tattoo on the center if his back. The tattoo is inverted which only makes it legible in a mirror, which is a notable feature that separates it from the real-life Hernadnez’s other tattoos.American Sports Storycontinuously depicts Hernandez’s habit of getting tattoos, which began when he was a standout tight end at the University of Florida. Some of Hernandez’s friends and love interests in the series point out his tattoos, including hishigh school teammate Dennis SanSocuie, who views them as a change in Hernandez’s character.
American Sports Story Episode 6 True Story: What The Show Changes
American Sports Story episode 6 once again alters key details and events in Aaron Hernandez’s personal life and NFL career before his arrest in 2013.
WhileAmerican Sports Storyoffers a fairly accurate recreation of Hernandez’s tattoos on Rivera’s body, the series places a specific emphasis on his “God Forgives” one. In the series, Hernandez gets the tattoo soon after the alleged murder of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado in a drive-by shooting in Boston’s Theater District. The series portrays Hernandez bizarrely killing two men who spilled a drink on him at a nightclub, which is what the real-life Hernandez was accused of doing in 2017.Prosecutors presented Hernandez’s “God Forgives” tattoo and other images of guns and shell casings as evidencethat Hernandez was guilty of the double homicide.
Aaron Hernadez’s Tattoos Have Connections To His Other Crimes
Two tattoos of guns point to two separate shootings
While not all of Hernandez’s tattoos were believed to be incriminating evidence, prosecutors certainly believed that some of them were essentially admittances of guilt for various violent acts. They believed that one ofHernandez’s tattoos on his arm depicts the chamber of a revolver with five bullets encased, which aligns with the prosecution’s theory that Hernandez shot Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado with five bullets. WhileAmerican Sports Storydoes not show Hernandez getting tattoos of guns and bullets on screen, the “God Forgives” tattoo is meant to encapsulate Hernandez’s potentially incriminating ones.
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The alleged killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, which Hernandez was found not guilty of in 2017, occurred in July 2012 before Hernandez received a 5-year, $40 million contract extension from the New England Patriots and just five months after Hernandez and the Patriots played in Super Bowl XLVI. The case was considered unsolved until after Hernandez was arrested and charged with the murder of Odin Lloyd in June 2013, which raised suspicions of his involvement after he and Avery S. Bradley, or Sherrod inASS, were seen at the Boston same nightclub as de Abreu and Furtado the night they were killed.Hernandez also had another tattoo of a pistol and shell-casing, which prosecutors claimed was evidence that he shot Bradley in the face in Florida.
American Sports Story Gets The Location Of Aaron Hernandez’s “God Forgives” Tattoo Wrong
The series moves it from his arm to the center of his back
American Sports Storyintentionally misplaced Hernandez’s “God Forgives” tattoo in episode 6, relocating it from his right arm to the center of his back in the series. The most obvious reason for doing this is for dramatic effect, althoughthe series makes it seem like Hernandez was guilty of the double homicidewhen he was, in reality, acquitted of both charges.American Sports Storyproducers have spoken outabout their belief that Hernandez did actually kill de Abreu and Furtado in cold blood and that the jury got it wrong. This would explain why they changed the size, shape, and location of Hernandez’s “God Forgives” tattoo and framed it as a direct admission of guilt inAmerican Sports Story.
American Sports Story
Cast
American Sports Story is a TV show from Stu Zicherman and executive produced by Ryan Murphy. The series stars Josh Andrés Rivera as Aaron Hernandez and Patrick Schwarzenegger as Tim Tebow. The sports anthology series serves as the fourth installment in Murphy’s “American Story” franchise.
