{"id":69678,"date":"2026-03-22T09:59:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/giants-cam-skattebo-says-his-denial-of-cte-and-asthma-were-part-of-a-tasteless-joke\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T09:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:59:42","slug":"giants-cam-skattebo-says-his-denial-of-cte-and-asthma-were-part-of-a-tasteless-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/giants-cam-skattebo-says-his-denial-of-cte-and-asthma-were-part-of-a-tasteless-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants\u2019 Cam Skattebo says his denial of CTE and asthma were part of a \u2018tasteless joke\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Running back retracts comments he gave on podcast<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Player\u2019s mother says she is asthmatic<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo has apologized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/21\/cam-skattebo-cte-fake-asthma-comments-giants\">for saying<\/a> that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and asthma are \u201cfake\u201d, insisting that his comments were not meant to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>In an appearance 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 the condition an \u201cexcuse\u201d, before making a similar claim about asthma.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/22\/cam-skattebo-cte-asthma-comments-nfl-running-back-giants\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running back retracts comments he gave on podcast Player\u2019s mother says she is asthmatic New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo has apologized for saying that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and asthma are \u201cfake\u201d, insisting that his comments were not meant to be taken seriously. In an appearance on the Bring the Juice podcast, the &#8230; <a title=\"Giants\u2019 Cam Skattebo says his denial of CTE and asthma were part of a \u2018tasteless joke\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/giants-cam-skattebo-says-his-denial-of-cte-and-asthma-were-part-of-a-tasteless-joke\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Giants\u2019 Cam Skattebo says his denial of CTE and asthma were part of a \u2018tasteless joke\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-69678","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\/69678","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=69678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}