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Just in time for Super Bowl week, House’s patient of the week is #77 on the field, #1 in your heart, a very large college football player who’s being scouted. As the kid — Daryl–‘s mother talks up her son to a scout in the stands. Daryl is like a raging bull, charging across the field, plowing into everyone and everything in sight. The aggression doesn’t stop there. Daryl takes off his helmet starts beating himself in the forehead with it, drawing blood. Lots of blood. So much blood, in fact, that he’s whisked off to Princeton-Plainsboro for House and his team of crackerjack diagnosticians to figure out what’s wrong.
The team attempts the clock to discover what’s wrong with Daryl before his mystery malady kills him, and all before Saturday, when Daryl has a tryout in front of scouts in the hopes to kick off his pro football career. At over 6’5″ and 300+ lbs., House’s first reaction is that it’s a bad case of ‘roid rage or pituitary damage. When nothing shows on the scans, House wonders if Daryl “got his hands on the good stuff,” possibly HGH. As usual, the staff exhausts every possibility until House has his 11th hour epiphany that Daryl has melanoma located on his foot. Disguised by the fact that Daryl is black and melanoma rarely affects people of color, House sees the treatable spot on the football player’s foot.
