A legend puts down the knife and fork

National champion of fork and knife athletics.

 

This is like a Norm MacDonald joke. "Finishing behind Kobayashi, in a tie for second place with no cow brains eaten, is EVERYONE ELSE ON EARTH."

 

And now it’s wide open:

Joey Chestnut Banned from Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Over Deal With Competitor

 

I'm not saying it's a particularly healthy thing, but these guys don't just walk out there and down 75 hot dogs. They train, and they compete. And the grossness of the endeavor is part of the ... I don't want to say appeal, but it's part of the skill, overcoming that.

Yes, eating a whole bunch of food is a sport.

Richman had to give up "Man Vs. Food" because of digestive issues (big surprise). Then they had a guy named Casey Webb replace him; you'd probably recognize him from a Mobil 1 commercial with Kevin Harvick.

 

To state eating a whole bunch of food is a sport is ridiculous.
Let me ask you ... ever written a column supporting your statement?

 

No, Liut. I've never written an article about competitive eating. I just know there's a reason they call it competitive eating.

This is a debate I don't think I want to examine further, though. It makes me full.

 

Have you ever written one supporting your statement that it is not?

Just about anything can be a sport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports

 

Who is exactly is they? Themselves?
What a joke.

 

No.
To have done so would have made me the laughingstock of every newsroom I've ever worked in.

 

Not everything that is a competition is a sport. Otherwise you could assign someone to the pissing contest beat.

 

PISSING CONTESTS ARE A SPORT! AND GIF IS PRONOUNCED WITH A SOFT G! FIGHT ME!

 

If people are urinating for distance, it could be a sport.