Wednesday, July 4, 2007
66 Hot Dogs
I just watched Joey Chestnut on ESPN eat 66 hot dogs!! 66 hot dogs. How in the world can someone eat 66 hot dogs? Just watching that, makes me feel stuffed. The funny thing is the announcers kept calling him a hero, and saying how brave he was to eat all those hot dogs. Really? Hero? Brave? I mean unless the hot dogs threatened him and his family is he really a hero? It's amazing how we throw around certain words in our society. Like the words hero, bravery, or even the word blessing. I'm surprised someone didn't say how blessed Joey was to have such a hot dog eating talent. This Sunday I want to touch on what it really means to be blessed, and how we have made that word mean less then it should.
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66 hot dogs... i could do that..
Janet, thanks for posting some comments. Now I know at least one person has actually read this stuff.
I bet if it was a hot dog eating contest to see who was going to be the next Regional Manager of Dunder Mifflen-Scranton Branch that he would have eaten a lot more.
That was a great episode!! Especially the guy floating in the sumo suit.
Another angle worth delving into is the participation, or lack there of, from the former hot dog eating champion Kobayashi. If you go to the International Federation of Competitive Eating website you will see that in 2006 Kobayashi dominated the…sport, I guess we’ll call it that, of competitive eating but was not able to participate in the 4th of July hot dog eating contest because of an arthritic jaw. Yes you read that right an arthritic jaw. The only question that I have is, “I wonder if he lost all his endorsements?”
Kobayashi did participate in the 4th of July contest. He came in second eating 63 hot dogs, overcoming the arthritic jaw. I was rooting for Kobayashi. I must be Canadian. (even though Kobayashi is Japanese, I just like making fun of Canada)
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