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Chris Cooley keeps fire burning during NFL lockout

"On South King St. in Leesburg, the shop front reads, "The Cooley Gallery." Kiln-fired vases, bowls and mugs, all signed and bearing a small No. 47 insignia, sit atop a small table in the showroom window. Handmade jewelry and pastoral oil paintings of Wyoming, some the work of a certain Pro Bowl tight end, can also be purchased inside — along with an autographed jersey if you like.

When the owner of the gallery is not here, he is said to be out jogging five miles with his wife to the soundtrack of the first season of "Glee," the musical dramady on Fox about a high school glee club.

"It's awesome," Chris Cooley says. "The last episode of the first season has all these Journey songs and me and Christy just start going."

As he smiles big at the thought of crooning a cover of "Don't Stop Believin'," Cooley disturbingly begins mimicking he and his wife running really, really fast.

First thought? It's time for an intervention, whereby teammates and family members encircle Chris, tell him how much they love him and to stop already, he's hurting them and himself. The NFL lockout will one day end, they'll tell him; it doesn't have to come to this: pottery, painting, fresh-baked chocolate-chip cookies on the gallery tables for his first showing Friday night in Leesburg, "Glee.""


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