Sports fans getting tattoos have offered some good (and very bad) Toe Poke fodder through the years, but here's one we haven't seen before. 

Gran tatoo de @FTucznio realizado por nuestro amigo tatuador @leo_forte_78
9/12/18 marcado en la piel y nuestros corazones... pic.twitter.com/42XyZG1qxx

— C.A.R.P (@friverplatense) April 10, 2019

"What am I looking at?," you ask. Well, to commemorate River's historic Copa Libertadores win over Boca Juniors in December of 2018, Fabio Tucznio had a fairly brilliant idea. He had a QR code tattooed on his leg that would make any device go to the highlights of River's 3-1 extra-time victory over arch-rivals Boca that saw them win the trophy 5-3 on aggregate.

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