Chris Cooley considering a move into his mother's basement

by Skin Patrol on Apr 1, 2008 1:04 PM EDT in Miscellaneous Comment 2 comments

There is a God; my favorite player on my favorite team is now a blogger. My reaction was totally predictable, as Dan Steinberg points out:

So yeah, Chris Cooley pretty much has what it takes to be a successful blogger. This might be a good time to mention that, with the possible exceptions of Clinton Portis, Fred Smoot and Dmitri Young, there is no D.C. athlete who will be more quickly embraced by the D.C. blogosphere than Chris Cooley.

In my case he's only wrong about one thing; there is no exception. Chris Cooley is the most fascinating player in the NFL and he happens to play for a team I write about daily. And now he has a blog. About precisely the kind of thing most fans find banal for all the right reasons yet I embrace because they're simply too funny and bizarre not to. See:

"We didn't want to do a Web site where a player pays a company to put it up and it looks like what everyone else has," he told me this week. "We want to do a lot of cool stuff that people would be interested in. Like, not football stuff. What we do in real life."

I actually care that Chris Cooley took 21 shots on his girlfriend's 21st birthday, at a strip club. Is that creepy? Probably.

Here is his blog and it is going up on the blogroll immediately. Dan says the entire thing is a scheme to get Cooley's younger brother some money for school, which is fine by me since I'm a sympathetic unemployed student with no income writing a blog. Enjoy, for example, this Pro Bowl entry:

I know that some fans may not like this [picture of Cooley standing next to Jason Witten] because Jason plays for Dallas. All I have to say is that he is a great guy and an awesome tight end. If that's not enough, think back to our last three home games against Dallas. 35 - 7, the last second field goal, and 27 - 6.

Hail to Captain Chaos.

PS, Mr. Irrelevant knows what time it is.

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he's defanatley on the reals

I took my girlfriend to Jamestown/ Williamsburg, Va, saying I wanted to check out the historical sites and VA beach. Unbeknown to her was that Cooley was going to be signing autographs at a local hotel..the whole reason that I really made for making the trip.

My girl was awesome enough to buy photos for him to sign since I was already getting a jersey and hat done up (2 item limit) She was ahead of me in line, and after she got the photos signed he looked at me and asked "is she with you?" I replied that she was my girlfriend and he said "nicely done" Which was awesome because 1) he thinks she's hot and 2) I'd have to have dumped her on the spot, had he said that I could do better...which would've made for an awkward ride home.

by CptChaosSidekick on Apr 1, 2008 1:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs