{"id":69643,"date":"2026-03-21T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/its-an-excuse-new-york-giants-cam-skattebo-says-cte-and-asthma-are-fake\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:56:00","slug":"its-an-excuse-new-york-giants-cam-skattebo-says-cte-and-asthma-are-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/its-an-excuse-new-york-giants-cam-skattebo-says-cte-and-asthma-are-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s an excuse\u2019: New York Giants\u2019 Cam Skattebo says CTE and asthma are \u2018fake\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Skattebo calls CTE and asthma \u2018fake\u2019 on podcast<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Comments draw backlash citing medical consensus<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Giants have not publicly responded to remarks<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo is facing backlash after dismissing both chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and asthma as \u201cfake\u201d during a recent podcast appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JkZhn0Krz4s\">Bring the Juice<\/a> podcast, the 24-year-old was asked whether he believes CTE \u2013 a degenerative brain condition linked to repeated head trauma \u2013 is real. Skattebo called it an \u201cexcuse\u201d, agreeing with the host before making a similar claim about asthma.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/21\/cam-skattebo-cte-fake-asthma-comments-giants\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skattebo calls CTE and asthma \u2018fake\u2019 on podcast Comments draw backlash citing medical consensus Giants have not publicly responded to remarks New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo is facing backlash after dismissing both chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and asthma as \u201cfake\u201d during a recent podcast appearance. Speaking on the Bring the Juice podcast, the &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018It\u2019s an excuse\u2019: New York Giants\u2019 Cam Skattebo says CTE and asthma are \u2018fake\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/its-an-excuse-new-york-giants-cam-skattebo-says-cte-and-asthma-are-fake\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018It\u2019s an excuse\u2019: New York Giants\u2019 Cam Skattebo says CTE and asthma are \u2018fake\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}