This frickin' hot dog eating championship, the announcers refer to "those who follow the sport." Uh...how does one get into "following" the "sport" of competetivie eating? Is it like what I'm doing, where you're looking for baseball and come upon this weirdness, go WTF and end up watching it?

This is disgusting. I mean...look at it. Shit, that's a lot of dogs. Go, Sonya Thomas...

honestly I think it's as much of a sport as nascar and the spelling bee.

Welp...Scrabble is on ESPN 2

dont be stupid about nascar bud....let's suit you up and see what you think. its a sport.

i find it amusing that kobiachi and the broad are skinny as shit and this fat bastard can't even keep up

The Scrabble champion has hot honeys hanging off him. Awesome.

I'm going to create a series of marathon eating events. Fuck all this dunking dogs in water and cramming them bullshit.

You get six hours to eat as much as you can of the particular food chosen for the contest. If you puke, you are out. If you have to shit, you have to stop, but your total stands.

This would be awesome for barbecues.

I like Nascar. Just sayin' that these people train for this and I'm sure it requires stamina and the ability to deal with some pain amonng other things. I don't think I could win a race or eat 200 hot dogs.

I don't deny that it's a sport. I'm just amazed that it has followers, cheerleaders, a phalanx of press, helmet cams and "legends."

Plus, there's a champion for just about every kind of food, apparently.

How does a cute 100 lb. young woman decide "oh, hey I know what I'm going to do with my life -- stuff hot dogs in my face competitively?"

yeah, i'd like to think that i could spin laps in a race car but the truth is, i would shit in my pants.

and this eating may not be sport, but it is entertaining/frightening

"Competitive Eating"

Entry #59361 in my upcoming book "Why The Rest Of The World Hates Us" .

Does anyone remember one of the TV channels showing Glutton Bowl, a competition where these huge guys have to eat unbelievable portions of really disgusting food? It only aired one time, as far as I know, but I distinctly tuning in for all of about 14 seconds just to see what the hell this was all about. What was it all about? At that moment, at least, it was about big dudes eating cow tongue . . . just picking the thing up and biting right into it. That was enough for me.

And there's the answer to the question "Whatever happened to the Glutton Bowl?"

Makes me wonder if I've ever eaten anything while on the crapper. Can't remember.

the Guiness world-record holding hot dog eater is some skinny runt-looking Japanese kid. He ate like 50 hotdogs in an hour.

Yeah that's Kobayashi, who won again today and for the fifth straight. His record is 53.

i love how the same incredibly predictable group of people will all jump out to protect NASCAR, y'all, bad pizza, and everything else the southeast stands for.

i can't balance 5 bowling pins on my head...that doesn't make that a sport.

I refuse to accept competitive eating as a sport. NASCAR, however, IS, without a doubt, a sport. It's a sport I don't give a shit about and find boring, but it's nevetheless a sport.

Steve

Has anyone ever watched the Pizza Olympics on the Food network?