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Redskins’ MVP (Most Valuable Penis)

Jim Buzinski — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:19:11 +0000

The Washington Redskins are 2-0 since tight end Chris Cooley flashed his penis on his blog. A contract extension is in order. In the line of the week, Cooley’s mom, Nancy, had this to say: “It’s never a good day when you hear there’s a picture of your son’s penis on the Internet.”

In more mundane NFL news, the Patriots suffered their worst home loss in 10 years, the Colts got run over by the Jaguars and the Cowboys went to 3-0. Check out our Week 3 NFL notes.

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VLOG: Cooley, gaydar at NFL games

Cyd Zeigler jr. — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:21:55 +0000

Today we launch our new Jock Talk Vlog, a video blog that we’re bringing to you with Afterelton.com. Each week, either Jim or I will talk about some of the week’s happenings in gay sports. Sometimes we’ll have guests, sometimes we’ll be ‘on location.’ One thing we won’t do: Ask Michael Phelps to host. Kidding!

We’d love any comments, direction you’d like to see the vlog go, whatever! Check it out after the jump.

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Chris Cooley apologizes for penis picture

Jim Buzinski — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:01:33 +0000

Washington Redskins tight end Chris Cooley is sorry that anyone saw his penis on his blog (background here). On his blog, under the headline “We’re Dumb,” Cooley wrote this:

All apologies from the website. We are very sorry that we showed a penis on our website all day yesterday. That was by no means our intention and we did not want to offend anyone. The picture wouldn’t have been up for so long, but we were in the middle of winning a big game. Once again, this was a complete accident and we regret not reviewing the post more closely. Thanks.

On a local radio station, Cooley had this great line when asked about the photo: “I can’t confirm or deny that was my penis, but I can say … how does that even happen?”

I love that Cooley wrote “showed a penis,” not “showed my penis.” This is one of the more amusing Internet tales in a while.

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Oops — Chris Cooley shows his penis

Jim Buzinski — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:42:37 +0000

(Updated with new info at the end.)

Washington Redskins tight end Chris Cooley seems like a cool guy. He once said he lost at Fantasy Football against a friend who had Cooley as his tight end on a day where Cooley scored three times. He also has a nifty blog, but that caused him a bit of embarrassment when a picture on his blog inadvertently showed his penis.

Cooley intended to take a photo of a page from his playbook revealing the “Tight End Test” for Sunday’s game against the Saints. The only problem? He was naked at the time, the playbook was in his lap, and so the picture included an image of Cooley’s penis.

Oops! Though I am not sure why Cooley reads his playbook naked, Deadspin jumped all over the item, provoking this response:

Apparently that was just [an] 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 [Deadspin], 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.

Deadspin was kind enough (damn them!) to photoshop out the offending penis and replace it as seen below. I saw the Deadspin item after it had already been airbrushed into oblivion. But readers who saw it in its glory seemed underwhelmed, with one writing: “Hopefully for his wife’s sake he’s a ‘grower.’ ”

It is ironic that Deadspin is among the sites Cooley links to on his blog. Ah, the perils of the Internet!

Update: Here is a link to the original photo. It really seems much ado about nothing and I am not being snide; the image is hard to read at first glance that I can see why it never got noticed before it was posted. This recap from the Washington Post has some great reaction from Cooley and his brother Tanner:

So the team won, Cooley’s 27-yard fourth-quarter catch was perhaps the biggest play, everyone celebrated, and eventually the Cooleys went home to Chris’s house and logged onto the blog again.

“Oh my God,” Tanner said.

“You can’t see anything,” Chris argued, bizarrely.

“You can see EVERYTHING,” Tanner pointed out.

So the Cooleys began to panic. They took down the item, which had by now migrated to other sites. Chris’s wife was obviously concerned. “I can’t believe I did that, I’m so stupid,” Chris said to his brother, more or less. “Why were you even naked anyway?” Tanner asked, sensibly, leading to the explanation about the mess on the bed and the table.

Update 2: Cooley says he’s sorry.

Update 3: NFL forces Cooley to talk with psychiatrist after penis exposure.

The Deadspin crop:

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