2012 Nathan’s finals converage
- Appearance of Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas on NBC’s Today yesterday
- CNN’s Eatocracy explains competitive eating terminology
- Guardian (UK) contest report
- Yahoo! Chompions blog entry
- Daily Mail carries the AP article with a lot of pictures
- Buzzfeed has a gallery titled “The 15 Disgusting Faces Of The Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest”
- Awful Announcing has commentary on the ESPN telecast
- The Kooky Canuck owner attended the finals and has a facebook gallery
- The Baltimore Sun has a gallery
- Driven by Boredom has galleries of the contest and afterparty
- Deadspin has a blog entry about post contest elimation. (A comment states that most elimination is done via vomiting and that a top 3 MLE eater required hospitalization after a training session went wrong (the commenter claims to be a friend of the hospitalized competitor’s girlfriend))
- The NY Times NBA blog has an entry about Brooklyn Net Marshon Brooks serving as a contest judge
- Ken Hoffman has an article about serving as Matt Stonie’s judge. The Houston Chronicle columnist claims that a piece of Joey Chestnut’s hot dog flew into his mouth. )
- Mercy for Animals has a blog entry about their contest protest
- Flickr gallery by EKavet
- Matt Stonie facebook gallery
- SeaCoast Online article about Matt Stonie
- Barrie Examiner article about Meredith Boxberger.
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Mega Munch said
July 6, 2012 @ 9:10 pm
OJ, you shouldn’t have lumped that “post contest bowel movements” Deadspin article in with all this other coverage. That’s a funny and insightful piece of work, deserving of its own thread. Seriously. Quotes from Janus, Pat, Joey and others about the most contemplated yet unasked question in the sport. Hilarious!
Mega Munch said
July 6, 2012 @ 9:18 pm
That “Awful Announcing” article was funny too. It confirmed what I thought I heard George Shea say during Joey’s intro: “He has God’s user name and password, and does with it what he pleases.” Oh brother.
anonymous said
July 7, 2012 @ 9:19 am
I read the deadspin article. If i was to guess the top 3 eater was either Joey or Pat I know both of them earn a decent living in competitive eating but is it really worth it playing with your life when you have to go to the hospital for something other than natural causes. Very stupid if you ask me. 2 or 3 gallons is not enough ? They have to go to the extreme and destroy their kidneys and other vital organs for what? The love of the sport? Or the love of a few thousand bucks? . When an eater tells you he never throws up that is hogwash. Some cannot like Shoudt or Juliet but the majority of them throw up but they will never admit it cause its a macho thing with them or they got caught doing something they are embarrassed about
Mega Munch said
July 7, 2012 @ 9:46 pm
What do you mean when you say Shoudt and Juliet cannot throw up?
anonymous said
July 7, 2012 @ 11:58 pm
Juliet and Bob have gone on record saying they are unable to throw up after a contest
Anonymous said
July 8, 2012 @ 10:26 am
And other guys have gone on record saying they don’t throw up. Neither statement make guarantees it’s true.
anonymous said
July 8, 2012 @ 1:13 pm
I don’t see logic. Is it that shameful to admit you throw up?
Anonymous said
July 10, 2012 @ 4:51 am
Why does thye IFOCE allow eaters to accept appearances on national TV when all hosts do is make fun of competitive eating. Even major network hosts treat it as a farce, and that’s indicative of why it will never sell as a sport. All the stupid comments here are by people who know that and kick it to the curb. Competitive eateing is no better than a carnival attraction made popular by weirdos. The top competitive eaters are right in there with the bearded lady and the human mermaid.