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Hats Off to Cam Skattebo, Who Threw Up Because He Ate a Pretzel Dog “That Didn’t Sit Right” Before Scoring Two Touchdowns
By Matt Schultz
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The Giants lost to the Commanders 24-21 on Thursday night in a game I don’t care about. What I do care about, though, is that between the first and second quarter, Cam Skattebo vomited up a pretzel-wrapped hot dog he’d just eaten, threw a towel over it, and then proceeded to score two touchdowns:
Cam Skattebo reportedly threw up on the sideline and then laughed before covering it up with a towel https://t.co/w3ZI83D0Gj
— Talkin’ Giants (@TalkinGiants) November 13, 2026
Transcribed:
REPORTER: “You got a little sick between the first and second quarter, can you talk about that?”
SKATTEBO: “Yeah, I just — I had a pretzel-wrapped hot dog. Didn’t sit right in my stomach. Nothing crazy. Got rid of it, felt good after.
REPORTER: “When did you have it?”
SKATTEBO: “Before the game.”
So funny. I laughed out loud listening to the clip of the interview. The best part was the reporter asking, “When did you have it?” You can hear the mix of concern, disbelief, and revulsion in his voice. He only said, “When did you have it?” but you can tell the real question he’s asking was, “You didn’t eat that hot dog right before the game, did you? Please tell me you didn’t eat a pretzel dog right before kick-off. That would be an insane thing to do, to have all your pads on and everything, to be all stretched out and ready to roll, and then get a room temperature Aramark hot dog from a stadium concession stand and put it into your stomach. That’s not what happened, is it? Tell me that’s not what happened.” And Cam essentially replied, “Yeah, pretty much that’s what happened. Except it wasn’t a stadium dog. I brought it from home. It thawed out in my backpack on the drive over and I ate it during the national anthem.” Beautiful.
I also particularly love the detail the broadcast mentioned of him throwing a towel over the vomit pile, for a few reasons. One, I like the idea of Cam thinking this is the normal way to handle vomit. In my mind, he doesn’t know that you’re supposed to throw up in the toilet, so his house is covered in small piles of vomit that he covers with towels. The other version of it that I like it Cam doing this to hide the fact that he threw up/try to cover up that it was him, as if the vomit doesn’t look/smell like pretzel dog, and the entire team didn’t just watch him eat a pretzel dog. Fun to imagine him thinking he got away with it with no one being the wiser.
Cam rules. I don’t care that he’s on the Giants. I wish the Eagles had a roundish, 5’4, no-necked lunatic doing funny throw-up stuff. It’s good for the team culture. Howie’s gotta look for one in the draft.
Matt Schultz is a comedy and sports writer from Philadelphia. He’s written extensively for ClickHole, The Onion, and Conan O’Brien’s Team Coco. His work has been featured in Vulture, Deadspin, The A.V. Club, Paste Magazine, and other publications. Much of his sports journalism can be found on college basketball websites that don’t exist anymore (PhilaHoops Heads rise up…) email: M.Schultz@sportradar.com