Viral Video Update: The Bog Wins One

It’s been a tough few weeks for the newspaper industry. Layoffs. Buyouts. More bad circulation news. Local NFL teams spending half their time making sure that local media outlets don’t do anything to provide their franchise with any unnecessary exposure.

Eventually, you get tired of losing. Sometimes, you want to get video of football players talking about football during training camp, even if it’s just to prove a point, even if it’s against the rules. Sometimes, you want to win.

Well, today I won. During the lunch intermission between two-a-days, Chris Cooley and I absconded to an off-site location, at which covert video was shot by a Washingtonpost.com camera person for Washingtonpost.com, despite the fact that video is not our core business.

Of course, every win has a loss buried somewhere deep inside it. In this case, the hidden cost was my laptop, which I left at Chris Cooley’s mom’s house, accidentally. Oh well. It’s a trade-off I can live with. Check back tomorrow for the video. And please reward Chris for his kindness by spending lots of money at his blog.

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