Todd Yoder would like to show you his leg bruise

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Unless you're Steve Tasker, playing on special teams is never going to earn a player a great deal of notoriety, though they're going to earn more than their share of bumps and bruises.

And a bruise Todd Yoder did receive. This handsome shiner you see on the right, the one that covers almost the entirety of his leg, the Redskins' back-up tight end got while on special teams this past Sunday against Cleveland.

Yoder supplied a few disquieting pictures and words of description on teammate Chris Cooley's blog:

If you want to know what it feels like to get hit in the NFL check out the following pictures. Yes that is the back of my leg with the best bruise I have ever received on it. It starts under my right butt cheek and continues down to about my calf and is now a lovely shade of red to purple. I think in a couple of days it will start to change colors into a rainbow of blacks, blues, maybe some greens, yellows, and reds. It happened during special teams last week and hurts like hell.

It's a good thing Mike Ditka is only expousing the removal of face masks. I'd hate to see what kind of marks we'd see if we had the wholesale dismissal of pads as well.

Also, yeeesh.

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1. Posted by harry e Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:10 pm EDT
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baby...that aint nothing
2. Posted by QUE RICO Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:42 pm EDT
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whiner.... thats why he is a back up ...and got lit up
3. Posted by Devine Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:39 pm EDT
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4. Posted by Jeffrey Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:32 pm EDT
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No one can ever be compared to Tasker. He was a special teams super man! He set the bar that all other special teams players try to obtain!
5. Posted by Older_than_Moses_Shaq Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:56 pm EDT
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If that happened against Cleveland I'd say it's probably a staph infection.
6. Posted by rightsaidfred Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:38 pm EDT
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Im had a leg that looked like that once. I fell off the ramp of a moving van with the end of a couch in my hand. My thigh hit the sharp corner of the ramp and it compressed the flesh all the way down to the bone. It took six months for the bruising to go away and I will never forget that experience.
7. Posted by Tommy Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:45 pm EDT
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damn thats gonna leave a mark
8. Posted by The Unsilent Majority Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:01 pm EDT
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Believe it or not I had a similar one on my arm from a phlebotomist screwing up the insertion of a needle.
9. Posted by The Walking Dude Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:56 pm EDT
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Welcome to the show, Ape. Looks like you're branching out. Ya Bettah ask somboddaaayyy!
10. Posted by mikegspot2020 Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:19 pm EDT
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Lol #5!!!!!!!!!!!
11. Posted by Shawn27 Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:13 pm EDT
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All the people who have said, or who will say, that Yoder complaining about that bruise is the reason he's a backup...well, they're the same people who curse and swear (and in some cases likely cry) like they broke their arm off when they stub their toe carrying around their overweight frames.
I'd like to see any one of the people who criticize the toughness of an NFL player take a full game's worth of hits in a real NFL game. Who's the real whiner--the guy who simply states it's a pretty good bruise after receiving it in the course of special teams play, or the guy on the internet who calls him a whiner or says it isn't anything?
...From the safety of his seat in front of his computer?
12. Posted by viperpic Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:10 pm EDT
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Well said Shawn27!
13. Posted by VinnyPizzan-Shut yo pie hole Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:07 pm EDT
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#2 -- you're a bigtime PUNK. maybe we ought to line your big fat WIDELOAD & pummel you. get a life JACKO or should I say JACKA$$
14. Posted by Paul L Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:14 pm EDT
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He wasnt whining, he was just showing a pretty brutal bruise. Hes in the nfl and the backup to a pro bowler so he has nothing to be ashamed of.
15. Posted by JamesF Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:17 pm EDT
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here are a couple of down to earth nfl players, cooley and his friend yoder who try to give some inside insight on what it is like to play in the nfl and out come a few smart people who appreciate the effort and a lot of clowns who will never even sniff the kind of lifestyle and money that nfl players earn. some people are so lost they do not even realize how wasted their ordinary, non-newsworthy lives are and only feel anything positive by trying to rip those who have succeeded beyond their own wildest but limited dreams.
16. Posted by bareskinsfan Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:10 pm EDT
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he is not whining, and the bruise is not the reason he is a backup. What an stupid statement to make. He is obviously proud of his bruise and you would be to.... Shawn 27 said it perfect!
17. Posted by Hermano Don Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:19 pm EDT
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Update us on the color changes with pics. It will be like fall leaves in Vermont. Anyway, most us non-NFL folks probably couldn't even move with a full body shiner like that one. Speedy recovery to you.
18. Posted by bleediots Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:39 pm EDT
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ouch ouch ouch ouch
19. Posted by Michael A Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:20 pm EDT
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all part of the game just keep playing
20. Posted by SkinsFan4Life Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:21 pm EDT
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Like a true, hard-nosed, armor-plated Redskin, Todd Yoder rubbed some dirt in it, got up and got back in the game. That's why we're 6 - 2. # 2 you're the whiner, you'll get lit up.
21. Posted by Wilbur Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:31 pm EDT
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Yoder is trying to recreate those Vandy colors (black and gold)!!!!
22. Posted by Ryan C. Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:22 pm EDT
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You people are stupid, you would be calling work saying you can't show up because it feels like you broke leg. This man does not miss practice and was asked to show the bruise, he did'nt do it to show off. I' m sorry most of you made some great comments. So except for harry e, QUE RICO, I'm sorry to the rest. Post # 1 and # 2 are the morons I was talking about, they are the ones that would cry if they hurt their pinkie typing their smack on here. They seem really tough, better watch out y'all.
GO SKINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
23. Posted by Jody Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:21 pm EDT
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Just a little contusion. Rub some of your teammates' 'arthritis balm' on it and you will be running .4.2 second 40s in no time again. :p
24. Posted by G-ma Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:03 pm EDT
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I don't believe he is whinning. When we watch the games all we see is the glamour of football, like touchdowns. I see him letting us in from the outside to see, just a part of what it's like. It doesn't matter what position or string you play they all play their hearts out for the team and us.