NFL Player Caught in the Buff on Social Media Video Laughs Off 'Em-bare-assing' Post

Chicago Bears offensive lineman Kyle Long joined in on the joking after teammate Tarek Cohen, a running back, posted a post-game video that, unbeknownst to either men, featured a fully nude Long in the background.

Long – whose name became pun-onymous with the video's extended gaze – told the Chicago Sun-Times that if the inadvertent peep show was embarrassing it was also "Em-bare-assing."

Long went on to quip, "Had I known that I would be full nude on the internet, I probably would have prepared a little bit more."

As EDGE reported previously, a Sept. 23 Instagram Live post by Chicago Bears Running Back Tarek Cohen featured Cohen in the locker room talking about the game his team had just won. But in the background, Long was changing in full view.

The New York Post reported that Cohen seemingly set his phone on the locker room floor in order to get a good angle, and in this, he succeeded: Cohen was able to fit his entire body into the frame. But behind him, Long's entire body was also visible, and entirely without clothing.

The Post that, "For a good 10 seconds, Long's manhood was in full view for each of Cohen's 223,000 Instagram followers to see."

The gaffe generated plenty of screen grabs before the video was pulled, media sources reported.

The mistake also generated plenty of humor. "If we learned nothing else from Antonio Brown, it's that live locker room social media broadcasts are a terrible idea," joked an article at Yahoo Sports, while Deadspin offered a dry comparison, noting, "There's still less nudity in this clip than the time NFL Network inexplicably showed a bunch of Bengals' butts during a locker room interview."

Setting the rhetoric fluff aside, Long offered a more sober, though still understanding, take on the incident, telling the Sun-Times how apologetic his teammate was, and recalling that Cohen "texted me immediately" to apologize.

"I said, 'Dude, it's OK. Shit happens,' " Long shared.

"The plane ride home was comedy club, as you can imagine," the good-natured player added.

The Sun-Times reported that Long wasn't the online Cohen reached out to with his mea culpas. Cohen also proactively notified team coach Matt Naghy about the gaffe.

"I reached out to Coach Nagy immediately, before he even found out about it," Cohen told the Sun-Times. "I wanted him to know that it was my fault, my bad, and that I was willing to take responsibility."

Players are prohibited from commenting on social media for an hour and a half after games, the newspaper reported.

Whatever consequences the team's management might decide Sohen will face, Long has already put it behind him.

Reporting on the story, NBC Sports quoted Long as saying, "I'm glad it happened after a win, so people are in a good mood, so they're not making fun of me for my play and my whatever."