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Laura Snyder-Stephens of Southgate saw more than she wanted to at Sunday afternoon's Detroit Lions game.
While sitting in Row 2 with two young sons on the visitors' side of Ford Field, she whipped out her camera to document what a Washington Redskins staff member whipped out during the third quarter
Facebook photo by Laura Snyder-Stephens, who's originally from Wyandotte.
"I can't help myself," she says on Facebook with "this pic of the Redskins coach peeing," as Detroit Sports Rag blogger Jeff Moss first posted Sunday night.
The gotta-go guy actually is special teams coordinator Ben Kotwica, 41, a former linebacker and team captain at West Point who's in his 10th season as a NFL coaching staffer. He joined the Redskins in 2014.
In a follow-up Monday, TMZ reports that another witness "says Kotwica was the second coach to expose himself and pee by that trash can during the game." The news/gossip site, which covers the exposed penis in its photo repost, adds:
We reached out to the Redskins and a rep had no comment. However, one team source tells us sideline pee breaks happen "all the time" with players and coaches and they always try their best to be discreet.
We're also told Kotwica is not in trouble with the team and will not face any sort of discipline.
TMZ claims its day-after post is a scoop, which prompts Moss to tweet: "Hey @TMZ, I don’t think you are aware of what 'EXCLUSIVE' means. Had this story last night."
As for the coaching assistant who took an urgent matter into his hand publicly, Kotwica now has a don't-do-as-I-do teachable moment for his two sons. (He and his wife, Christina, also have two daughters.)
