Vice City Manatees

The fictional sports team whose jersey the GTA 6 cover-art woman wears, decoded by fans alongside her 305 and Vice Baby tattoos.

Type
Sports team
Home city
Vice City
Seen
Jersey on the official GTA 6 cover art, June 2026
Companion details
"305" wrist tattoo, "Vice Baby" tattoo (fan-spotted)
Status
Fan-decoded; Rockstar has not commented

The Vice City Manatees are a fictional sports team known from a single, well-studied source: the official Grand Theft Auto VI cover art, revealed in June 2026. The woman on the cover, whose tile mirrors the classic 2002 Vice City cover girl, wears a Vice City Manatees jersey, tying her to the fictional city's sports scene.

Fans catalogued the jersey as part of a run of Miami-flavoured touches on the same figure: a "305" wrist tattoo nodding to the real Miami-Dade area code, a second "Vice Baby" tattoo doubling down on the setting, and a can of Thaw in her hand. Every one of these is a fan-spotted observation. Rockstar has not commented on the cover's symbolism, so the Manatees exist in the record as a decoded detail rather than a described franchise.

A team named after Florida's beloved, entirely un-athletic sea cow is a very GTA joke, and it hints at a wider fictional sports layer in Vice City. Official screenshots separately show Sahara Arena, a basketball stadium, with GTABoom's reporting describing it as tied to a team called the Vice City Narcos; nothing connects or ranks the two teams, and no league, sport or roster has been confirmed for the Manatees.

The full cover decode is collected in our cover art easter eggs piece, and the brand landscape on the GTA 6 brands overview.

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