Giants running back Cam Skattebo attempted to show that his ankle is healed by attempting to perform a backflip on Saturday at Fanatics Fest. Skattebo did not stick the landing.
On Sunday, Skattebo and Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart appeared on a special episode of The Fantasy Footballers from SiriusXM. Skattebo addressed his Saturday shenanigans.
“I mean, so I’ve been doing backflips since I was like four years old,” Skattebo said. “So it’s natural to me. I’m gonna address the elephant. I will not hurt myself before the season. . . .”
He then explained his pratfall.
“So what happened was, I don’t know if you guys know WWE or not, those floors are bouncy,” Skattebo said. “So when I took off, I was mid-air, like, ‘Holy cow, I’m not gonna land this, I’m way too high.’ Landed, but it had too much cushion. It wasn’t a stiff, firm ground. So that’s why I kinda like went back, safely landed, got back up, was good to go. So nothing came out from that. I’m perfectly fine. Nothing happened. We’re good.”
Some would say it’s not good that Skattebo unnecessarily put himself at risk.
He also was asked whether he enjoys being regarded as a “wild maniac.”
“I totally enjoy that part,” Skattebo said. “I think I less enjoy the ‘brain-dead kind of guy.’ But it is what it is. I mean, the New York people love it, so I’m just gonna keep being me. And if they wanna say I’m brain-dead and I don’t have no brain, then who cares? Fuck it, you know?”
(Nothing says you have a brain more than saying, “I don’t have no brain.”)
Back in March, Skattebo made waves by claiming that CTE, and asthma, aren’t real. He later apologized for his “tasteless joke.”
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