{"id":826396,"date":"2026-03-22T03:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/826396\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T03:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:45:15","slug":"cam-skattebo-apologizes-after-calling-cte-an-excuse-asthma-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/826396\/","title":{"rendered":"Cam Skattebo apologizes after calling CTE an &#8216;excuse,&#8217; asthma &#8216;fake&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nfl\/cam-skattebo-cte-excuse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">made ridiculous comments<\/a> during a podcast that led to him apologizing on Saturday shortly after the comments were viral.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/4sHgvbNvkMV4UViWX3I4lV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bring the Juice<\/a> podcast with Frank Dalena, Skattebo said that Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is an \u201cexcuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t done.<\/p>\n<p>Skattebo agreed with Dalena\u2019s suggestion that asthma is an \u201cexcuse,\u201d and he proceeded to add that asthma is \u201cfake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, Skattebo\u2019s very wrong comments caused an uproar, and he apologized on social media on Saturday evening. His apology featured referring to the comments as a \u201ctasteless joke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Apology from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Giants?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Giants<\/a> RB Cam Skattebo on IG. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5LiT1jGCVP\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/5LiT1jGCVP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeGarafolo\/status\/2035485642449179022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI recently did an interview and had a lapse in judgment, which resulted in making a tasteless joke about CTE and asthma,\u201d Skattebo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/sk4ttp4ck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">posted to Instagram<\/a>. \u201cIt was never my intention to downplay the seriousness of head trauma or asthma. I sincerely apologize to anyone that was offended by my remarks, and I assure you that I\u2019ll be more mindful and respectful going forward. MUCH LOVE!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skattebo, a fourth-round pick by the Giants in 2025 after starring at Arizona State, played eight games in 2025 and scored seven touchdowns before suffering a season-ending ankle dislocation, open tibia fracture, and ruptured deltoid ligament in October. A few weeks later, <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/news\/cam-skattebo-brawl-while-injured.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he faced backlash for taking part in a brawl at WWE Raw<\/a> while injured.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo made ridiculous comments during a podcast that led to him apologizing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2067],"tags":[114396,746,46987,7,114368,519,1917,56,2321,2469,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-826396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-bring-the-juice","9":"tag-cam-skattebo","10":"tag-cte","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-frank-dalena","13":"tag-giants","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-giants","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkgiants","18":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116270774715699023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}