In a very casual and low-key way, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy revealed that he had cancer and beat it.
The 47-year-old revealed his diagnosis during an episode of “The BFFs Pod” when his co-stars noticed a scar on his neck.
“I overcame it,” Portnoy said, blaming the skin cancer on lying in the sun all day without sunscreen.
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Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy attended the event. (Jeff Botali/Getty Images)
“I’ve had a heart attack, cancer, been stung by a bee, and I’ve overcome it all,” Portnoy joked.
“I went to the doctor and they did some skin surgery and scraping and they found out one of the growths was cancerous so they had to remove it,” Portnoy added.
Portnoy said he was actually just trying to draw people’s attention to the scars.
“I’ve been trying to shove it in people’s faces,” Portnoy said.
But he said he kept the operation secret.
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy recently revealed that he had been diagnosed with cancer and has now beaten it. (The Dave Portnoy Show with Eddie & Company/YouTube)
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“I never told anyone I was going to do it. It was all part of my master plan. [Boston] The Celtics lost last night, and I was going to say, ‘I have cancer. I don’t want to talk about it.’ But they won.”
Portnoy said he and his fellow Barstool hosts were recording a recap of the Celtics’ NBA Finals win, but no one mentioned the scars and bandages on his neck in the celebratory cigar video he posted.
“It was like they knew I was going to call myself a cancer survivor,” Portnoy said. “I was on the verge of reopening this wound and starting to bleed until someone said, ‘What’s going on?’ It’s a giant, giant scar and no one’s saying anything.”
Portnoy said: X (formerly Twitter)he said, the cancer was “thankfully not serious.”
David Portnoy of Barstool Sports (Tom Briglia/Getty Images)
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Portnoy bought Barstool back last year, initially selling the company for roughly $500 million before buying it back for just $1. After the University of Pennsylvania’s deal with ESPN.
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