Morning Man Encore: Jeremy Bloom!

Originally published on April 13, 2009. Updated with additional photos.

For two years running, Olympic skier and football player Jeremy Bloom won the Outsports.com “King of the Hardwood” contest for hottest athlete of the year. Bloom got even more buff after being picked up by the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers as a wide receiver. Outsports.com CEO Jim Businski told me last in 2007 of Bloom: “We did an interview with Bloom and he was flattered, but wanted to be thought of as more than a pretty face.”

Bloom has done well juggling modeling gigs that show off his “pretty face” and body and so it’s clear he doesn’t mind being admired for his looks as well as his skills: “He showed a lot of skin and was not bashful about it,” Buzinski said.

And that, as Martha Stewart would say, is a good thing.