Cam Skattebo should take apology for 'tasteless' CTE joke a step further | Opinion
New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo apologized after making a joke about CTE. But something good can come from the attention on Skattebo's comments.
Here’s a suggestion for Cam Skattebo: Donate your brain. Skattebo, the throwback New York Giants running back, certainly did the right thing in posting an apology on social media for his silly response to a question about chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) on a recent podcast. Then again, he should never have put his foot in his mouth.
Asked during a segment on the “Bringing the Juice” podcast whether CTE is real, Skattebo replied: “No. It’s an excuse. ” Just mindless.
With or without the jerk move of digging at sufferers of asthma. On top of apologizing for what he called a “tasteless joke,” Skattebo, 24, should go a step further and donate his brain to science. Now that would add some weight to the apology.
Skattebo’s brain – and hopefully we’re talking many, many years down the road – could serve a purpose. Maybe someday it can aid in research about the degenerative brain disease most closely linked to head trauma sustained by football players, yet also afflicts hockey players, boxers and those in other sports or situations, like combat veterans. Researchers on the frontline are optimistic that we’re much closer to the development of a test that diagnoses CTE in the living.
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