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.