Poor Terrell Owens -- he was duped. Duped, I'm tellin' ya. Duped into appearing in a photo that implicated him in pornography.

Like a lot of folks who keep track of the social lives of our sports heroes, I was aware earlier in the week of the alleged photo of Owens that links him, at least in terms of geographic proximity, with a women who then goes on to appear elsewhere in poses not suitable for workplace viewing.

One might infer from all this juxtaposition of positions and photos thereof that Terrell Owens was a willing party.

I didn't link to the initial T.O photo because I wasn't 100 percent absolutely sure it was he. But today, courtesy of a letter from T.O.'s attorney's to certain Internet parties, we learn that it was indeed a beaming T.O. we see in the photo but that he DID NOT KNOW that there was going to be porno pics appearing elsewhere that could be contrued as being associated with his own image. I called the lawyer's office to make sure the letter appearing on TMZ.com was authentic. It was.

The letter was addressed to an outfit called theDirty.com and references another site in play here, which we're not even going to name. Warning to curious 'Net sleuths, following this to its logical conclusion will bring you to what many would call a highly offensive place.