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Chris Cooley's Accidental Nude Blogging Causes Stress For Cooley Family, Inc.

DAULERIO — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:00:10 EDT

I'm not big on saving too many text messages, but the one I received at 9:02 p.m. last evening while sitting in a Chili's in Hermosa Beach will probably be archived for eternity:"Hey, it's Tanner Cooley. I need to talk to you about my brother's cock picture on the site. Call me."

Yesterday when KOGOD posted about Redskins' tight end Chris Cooley's unfortunate shlong-reveal it wasn't expected to elicit as much of a reaction as it did. Chris Cooley, who's very open on his personal blog and whom maintains a very high profile in sports blog circles, may have (we thought) posted his flaccid member and hairy peach basket on purpose. We now know it wasn't intentional. Tanner, Chris's younger brother and surrogate for all of Chris' off-field activities was "very stressed" after his big brother's penis popped up on his personal blog yesterday morning. We did show the full picture on our site for a while, but the decision was made to use Playing The Field's Redskin photoshop because, well, we afforded the same discretion to Santonio Holmes' anaconda when it popped up on some dating site. And, honestly, does it really do us any good to show unencumbered athlete wang on the site? (Don't answer that.) It happened, it's hilarious, and if you do want to see Cooley's sleeping turtle PTF has watermarked it for posterity.

Tanner is now in prime spin mode, making the rounds, doing his best to explain why on earth his brother chose to blog naked in the first place. (Why? Because apparently Chris was "getting ready for the game.") And, hey, the Redskins won and he snared five catches. Maybe it should be a pre-game ritual for the rest of the season.

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Cooley Exposed More Than His Playbook

KOGOD — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:10:47 EDT

Chris Cooley, a friend of the bloggers as well as an accomplished blogger in his own right, had a nice day on the field today, but I don't think that's what people are going to remember come tomorrow. Earlier today Chris posted on his official blog about a fun section of the playbook that Jim Zorn asks his players to decorate for themselves (he's like a bohemian football coach!) as well as a position test he took to prepare for today's opponents. What he may or may not have realized is that he was also posting a picture of his dick for the world to see. The uncropped image is after the jump in all its ~~not safe for work~~ glory. Update after the jump.

I honestly have no idea whether or not he might have done this on purpose, but considering his quirky personality and prankster ways it wouldn't be entirely unsurprising. ~~I guess we'll know for sure if he's quick to yank it...uh...so yeah, please continue sending us your tips...uhhh....~~

UPDATE: Yeah, so apparently that was just one unfortunate accident, one of the many hazards of nude blogging. The Cooley's have responded by removing the post from their blog, and according to text message from Chris's brother Tanner to our own ~~Balls~~ AJ, he wasn't happy to see his brother's cock meandering its way around the internet. But hey, nobody wants to see their brother's cock anywhere.

Seeing as how the photograph was in fact an accident, and not Chris Cooley's homage to Charles Hayley, we've replaced it with the above photoshopped image courtesy of our friends at Playing the Field.

For now, at least.

Stay tuned tomorrow for updates as this story of accidental nudity develops. Perhaps in the end we'll learn that they were in fact the balls of one Tobias Fünke.