The Truth About Stuart Scott's Eye
While vacationing last week on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, several 18-25 year-old sports fans, including myself, wondered aloud about what happened to ESPN anchor Stuart Scott's eye. Everybody seems to remember a time when the eye was operating perfectly (see photo to the left), but sometime a few years back, it started to look different. It started looking like a lazy eye. Then, it started looking like the ultimate lazy eye. I felt bad for him, but didn't know how to react. I've never been a big fan of Stuart, what with his thinking he's bigger than the sports he yaps about and all, but I wouldn't wish a weird-looking eye on anybody (see photo below). I have had this conversation dozens of other times over the years. It really became a prominent topic of discussion during the first season of "Dream Job," the reality TV series that made one lucky contestant an ESPN Sportscenter anchor.

Anyway, I vowed at dinner that night in North Carolina that after eating, I would Google "What's up with Stuart Scott's eye?" I did. And guess what? There IS an explanation. This is from Wikipedia, the free, online encyclopedia, under the Stuart Scott entry...

"Stuart Scott suffered an accident on April 3, 2002, in the New York Jets training camp in Long Island while reporting for ESPN. A machine that throws footballs for receivers to practice hit him in the left eye with a football, and Scott had to undergo surgery of the cornea [3]."














I guess we Northeasterners can blame yet another thing on the New York Jets. (look closely, this is post-accident).