The world looks on in horror as American gluttony took center stage on ESPN. It's Hot Dog eating time. B-U-R-P!
Nothing says America like competitive eating.
With U.S. and world starvation, the Chinese government propping up a holocaust inducing Sudanese government and the NY Yankees going to h-ell, we have competitive eating on center stage...and I watched it all.
This one hour event was like a Triple Crown race, 48 minutes of hype and speculation, followed by a quick race. The difference is that at Nathan's the contestants may pukeduring the contest. Woof Cookies results in a DQ. It's bad for the contestant, yet great t.v.
As competitive eating fans know, Kobayashi was claiming an arthritic jaw injury, which would hamper the defense of his Six Time record. Analysts thought it to be a ruse, which it was. Kobayashi showed up at the last minute, intending to play mind games with Joey Chestnut, his heir apparent.
The main competitor, Joey Chestnut, below, was talking smack and was ready for the feed bag.
ESPN played up the 'event' by giving it mock analysis during SportsCenter. The comments were smarmy and fun.
The twelve minute event began with the crowd countdown. The record of 59 1/2 hot dogs must go down and go down hard.
Kobayashi started out slow and trailed till the final three minutes, when he turned it up, catching and briefly passing Chestnut. The humongous crowd of thousands cheered its support and begged for one of these guys to throw up, making their and my day complete.
Sports viewers everywhere salute Kobayashi's valiant effort to retain his six time title. Unfortunately, after a bit of backwash and spray in he final 30 seconds, the judges ruled Kobayashi had eaten ONLY 63 hot dogs, the Wuss!
Chestnut had the best #### down the strech and chowed down a record total of 66 hot dogs and buns. The number 66 has the competitive eating world on the edge of its buffet tables. I feel like throwing up after watching this schadenfreude event.
That's alot of freakin' dogs man. And the soggy old buns to boot...which is enough to make any man have to "boot".
I can't believe Kobayashi went down. This is like Tyson getting shocked by Buster Douglas.
I've bought that 50 pack of Nathan's hot dogs for big BBQs. I can't believe someone ate the whole pack plus 16 more in one quick sitting. That just blows my mind.
I can't believe these dudes and dudettes get paid to eat all this c-rap.
It's amazing. Isn't this what makes us the melting pot? Competitive eating and Wie getting $20mm in endorsements, having won nothing.
huskers...I thought the same thing as you....what must the starving kids in Darfur and beyond be thinking of this? Oh wait, they don't know about it because they don't have electricity, much less food.
If only they could take those dogs and feed a refugee camp for one day.....and this is NOT a sport.
Do they purge afterwards? I could see a bunch of bulimics entering this contest.
Good post, happy 4th.
Aren't we the most overweight country in the world? I thought it was disgusting. How is this a sport that deserves the attention of ESPN? Thanks for your post. Did you see the National Spelling Bee after the eating contest? For the love of God! So, are sex and marriage a sport also? Next it will be breathing and ####ing.
Lisa, it's amazing what goes on in the name of oil.
China is propping up the murderous govt. to get the oil on a long term contract.
Vol, I'm not fat, never have been and never will be. This morning after a run, I stopped in to pick up a couple gallons of milk. The clerk said after seeing me sweating heavily, "You're not gonna walk home, are you? I don't walk anywhere." That's the type of person who claims victim status when she's fat.
The Spelling Bee will be on ESPN forever. We have to deal with it.
slshusker, you are right about the spelling bee. My husband has fibromyalgia and he can't run anymore. We do power walk one hour in the moring and one hour in the evening. It makes your body feel good and it clears your mind. I will never understand the people that eat at fast food places and want to sue because they are overweight. It is like the people that circle the parking lots to get the parking place closest to the door. I guess I am just simple and I will never figure out those people. Anyway, you helped me out on another site--told me to ignore a person. For that, I am grateful. I was making a fool of myself and you helped me to stop. You are one cool person and I appreciate you.
Ckf-The buns make it so much more interesting. That's why the dudes suck down so much water, saturating the buns. There's probably a meat eating category.
Volvan69, thanks for the nice words.
fibromyalgia is almost a generic term for chronic pain coming from somewhere. I think it hits women far more often than men. My sidekick is a walking medical encyclopedia.
I don't remember the fool you were discussing the item with, yet we have far too many 14 year olds with typing abilities. I look at the content of the blog to determine possible age. If you can't type it or use proper grammar and spelling, it's time to find some one else's blog.
Thanks.
The Champ goes down....the Champ goes down! say it isn't so. I think the worst one to watch is the Crytal Burger one because they're sooooo nasty.....yuck. Funny tv though...ha ha ha.
Steeler, I never heard why you were out of action for a week. It was either a knee injury of PC virus. Inquiring mind still wonders.
Crystal burgers...never had em' till a trip to Jersey for work. 60 minutes after I ate a dozen, I was sprinting to get rid of used Crystal burgers. I won't touch them now, kind of like Schlitz beer.
Cool Hand Luke 012, dang, that was spirited venom!
Does the 012 mean you're 12 years old?
Thanks for being the first person to EVER refer to me as Liberal. I needed the laugh. I'm more of a Dennis Miller guy.
I'm sorry that you didn't understand the comparison of Darfur and the Yankees possible demise. Lighten up.
LOL. Nice take on this aspect of today. I will say that generally it's a good 3 months before I can even consider looking a hot dog in the eye after this annual contest. Of course we all pretty much know what Hot Dogs are. Whatever is left over ground up and stuck in a casing.
Of course we're lucky that it's not brains or tripe or tongue that they eat on the 4th. LOL
Jgrace, here's my 4th of July memory.
One year, a spark from a punk went into a sack of bottle rockets and 2 gross went up in flames at the same time. This was back when bottle rockets were allowed to have 'report' and blow up.
At that time, we were one of the few families in the hood that had parents allowing us to have bottle rockets and fire crackers.
Daddy put me onto the theory of Darwin at a young age. The dumb will perish early.
Outlaw, I actually saw a meatpacking room floor. It ain't a nice sight.
The govt allows a certain amount of rat droppings in meat. Yikes. It was all in fun and you clearly GOT IT.
Chux, mah brutha', those are some darn good dogs!
I prefer a little chili and onions on my dogs.
Three is all I need.
66 gut bombs in 12 minutes(5.5 per minute...math in my head, thank you midwest education) is absolutely insane. How do they stretch their stomachs like that. It's sick.
Huskers, good job although I asked my wife what your word schadenfreude meant. She says you are saying " Happy Damage". I thought this wasn't a common word in German. What are you trying to say. I'm really not dissing you, but you said this word a couple of times and I had to ask.
To you is it German.
Maybe in it's own region in Germany or even Austria it's a word. She's from the Frankfurt/ Berctesgarten.
It still don'y matter. I really don't mean to get in your business.
Huskers, notice that someone said basically his story was more in depth. Read up about 13 comments. I 'll let you handle it if you want. seems he wants to get to you since you befriended his enemy.
Marty, the American connotation for Schandenfruede is: Impending train wreck that we all can see coming, yet can't turn away from.
As for the enemy, hold em' close.
Here's a good definition of the word :
'pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune'
Paris Hilton is a walking example.
Husker - I once ate FOUR hot dogs at a Tiger double header. I thought that I was a #### Pig...wait, I am a pig. How these guys can shove that much cow #### down their gut is simply amazing. Now those four hot dogs were good but they did cause some Schandenfruede to my gut.
Got it. She also said tere was old older unuse phrase using that word as a damaging trainwreck. I guess their language has multiple meanings as ours. Thanks.
wow. Didn't realize there was so much passion for this event. I didn't watch, but I did think about that Grey's Anatomy episode with the competitive eater. Total parallel, right?
Nice read Husker. I didn't see the competition actually... but I heard about it. I think this may have been the most hyped up this thing has ever been.
Your post was at least twice as entertaining as watching that could have been. I, fortunately, missed it, all 60 minutes. It is true gluttony and an unbelievable waste of time and gastric acid.
Nice post sls. The fact that people starve all over the world though should not stop us or anyone from having eating contests. We throw away more food each day from rest, grocery stores, and our own fridges that was wasted at this contest. The fact is that we feed the world, and if the people of Dafar wanted help we would be there right now. That is a nation at civil war that wanted our troops gone. People forget that.
People are starving in India as well with thousands of cattle roaming the hillsides, but they won't eat beef. Go figure.
Kelly, I don't think ESPN can show reruns of eating contests, like they do for poker.
Flying Pig-whatchathink of the new MLB all you can eat for $30 at some parks. You're better off eating light then hitting a bar with food after the game.
Marty - 1) Slang makes languages difficut 2)Does your wife have a favorites button?
Rkstar - There were THOUSANDS of people jamming the streets. It looked like Mardis Gras.
Brooklynites got nuttin' bettah' to do, either.
JQP, you have your Irish up. Bobby Sands died because he wouldn't eat.
KSP - Don't worry that you missed it. The first 48 minutes are preview until the 12 minute contest. Unbelievably, the ESPN family rebroadcast it and the 2006 competition again yesterday.
NorthSide - I started typing when the eating started. I couldn't believe the throngs of people there or that I watched.
Socal, my comparison of the Sudan and Yankees demise was missed by most. The latter isn't important.
It's absolutely sad that people can be so dedicated to cramming that much food into their stomach. I'm not sure what is more pathetic - this eating contest on our nation's birthday, or the fact that just about every family in America celebrates by setting their money on fire in the form of overpriced fireworks.
It's really no different than most other holidays...somewhere along the lines, the true meaning was lost.
That being said, the competitive eating records out there are insane. 66 hot dogs? How about the poor sucker who holds the record by eating 177 jalapenos? Ouch...in more ways than one.
slshusker, Were we suppose to be amused by Kobayashi's effort to stop himself from regurgitating his food ? Because let's deal with a real issue here as you so rightfully said. What we saw on tv yesterday purported to be a competition was nothing more than a wild attempt at stupidity and insult to everyone's intelligence.
800,000 deaths in Darfur from hunger and starvation. And still counting ! And ESPN chooses to entertain us with something like that ?
Does anyone here feel that they've got their priorities all wrong in this respect ?
Statistics are a dangerous when handled by zealots.
I believe Burnt Orange isn't a color, it's a disease.
The DH rule should be elimintated.
I like cats and dogs...cats taste more like chicken.
Women are god's greatest creation.
Barry Bonds was detrimental to sports.
The month after the Super Bowl is sports HELL.
March Madness is the best elongated sports extravaganza.
The Masters is great watching, in spite of Jim 'nancy boy' Nantz.
Anyone spouting political commentary should be barred from this site.
This is a sports blog!
I need a soma.
followed by a quick race. The difference is that at Nathan's the contestants may puke during the contest. Woof Cookies results in a DQ. It's bad for the contestant, yet great t.v.
