Archive for Crazy Legs Conti
October 10, 2008 at 11:28 pm
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ojrifkin
· More posts about: Crazy Legs Conti, Podcasts
Crazy Legs Conti is a guest on the “Fat Guys at the Movies” podcast co-hosted by Kevin Carr. (His segment begins around the 34 minute mark.) Crazy Legs mainly talks about his movie watching record attempt, but he does reveal some unconventional attire he wore during a Johnsonville bratwurst contest.
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October 3, 2008 at 11:04 am
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Gothamist reports that Crazy Legs Conti has started his attempt to break the current Guinness continuous movie watching world record of 120 hours 23 minutes. He is watching the movies with 5 other competitors, including the current record holder, in a temporary glass structure in Times Square. 10 minute bathroom breaks between movies are allowed, but sleeping is not. The winner will receive a $10,000 cash prize.
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August 23, 2008 at 10:42 pm
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ojrifkin
· More posts about: Crazy Legs Conti, Eating Challenges, Videos

Crazy Legs Conti was a surprise guest on College Humor Live recently and attempted to consume Michael Phelps’ typical breakfast in under 5 minutes. Video, Gallery
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July 21, 2008 at 2:34 pm
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ojrifkin
· More posts about: Business, Crazy Legs Conti, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Tim "Eater X" Janus, Videos
Badlands Booker has uploaded to his youtube page a clip from a segment the Canadian show Careers TV about his competitive eating career. Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti also appear.
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July 1, 2008 at 9:39 pm
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ojrifkin
· More posts about: Crazy Legs Conti, Tim "Eater X" Janus
The new issue of The Village Voice has a long article about Crazy Legs Conti and Tim “Eater X” Janus. The roommates will also be profiled in an upcoming issue of Italian Vogue
updated removed sentence about 33 gram bun
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May 23, 2008 at 1:49 pm
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ojrifkin
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Crazy Legs Conti has posted his food diary from May 16 to May 22 to New York Magazine’s food blog. The diary includes his practice session for the Three Brothers pizza contest next week, which will not allow dunking.
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May 22, 2008 at 6:51 pm
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ojrifkin
· More posts about: Crazy Legs Conti, Tim "Eater X" Janus, Video Games, Videos

(from an email) Crazy Legs Conti and Tim Janus appeared on this morning’s edition of “The Today Show” and competed in a one minute watermelon eating contest and then demoed the Major League Eating video game. The video can be viewed online.
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May 20, 2008 at 4:25 pm
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ojrifkin
· More posts about: Crazy Legs Conti, Video Games

The blog for the Village Voice has an entry about this afternoon’s watermelon eating contest at Rockefeller Center between Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti. Conti won the six minute contest by one bite. After the first contest completed, Conti and Janus had a virtual watermelon eating contest by playing the Major League Eating video game. The blog entry closes with an announcement that an article about Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti will appear in the Village Voice this summer.
IFOCE.com also has a report about the event.
update AppScout has a blog entry about the event with pictures and videos, including a recording of the performances of Beautiful Brian and Badlands Booker.
update #2 Serious Eats has a gallery and MTV has a blog entry.
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May 20, 2008 at 8:54 am
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ojrifkin
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Crazy Legs Conti was interviewed by Midtown Lunch to promote his midtown lunch today at a watermelon eating contest at Rockefeller center:
Place you discovered thanks to Midtown Lunch: Back to sushi – I relied on Midtown Lunch to give me the rundown on how fast the conveyer belt moved at Sakae Sushi (not fast enough for me) and the crowd at the Todai buffet. Regarding Todai, pickle eating champ Beautiful Brian Seiken is planning an outing to Todai’s plentiful buffet. You need a sizable guy like Beautiful Brian to anchor himself front and center at the sushi bar, then other NYC gurgiators like Nasty Nate Biller and me can form a wedge and really get behind the sneeze guard to take the buffet down. If the head chef isn’t crying into the steam table in an hour, we haven’t done justice to Midtown Lunch!
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May 8, 2008 at 4:59 pm
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ojrifkin
· More posts about: Contest Previews, Crazy Legs Conti
The web site for the Hot Dog Safari announces that a hot dog eating contest between Crazy Legs Conti and two couples will take place at that event on June 1 at Suffolk Downs in suburban Boston. The entry form states that the couple must be married or engaged and that the accepted pairs will be notified by May 15. The winner will receive $1000 in gift certificates, the loser will receive $500 in gift certificates.
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May 3, 2008 at 10:50 am
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ojrifkin
· More posts about: Crazy Legs Conti, Health
The Los Angeles Times has an article about the impact of competitive eating on eaters’ health. Crazy Legs Conti is quoted and says that he and Tim Janus have hired a yoga instructor to help their eating. George Shea says that most eaters do not train for contests.
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April 17, 2008 at 4:12 pm
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ojrifkin
· More posts about: Crazy Legs Conti, Media
Crazy Legs Conti and Arturo Rios were guests of Dr. Billy Goldberg’s Sirius radio show and competed in an on air cake eating contest. Goldberg wrote a column for MSNBC about their appearance. MSNBC also has a poll asking what eating contest would you like to see.
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April 7, 2008 at 8:23 am
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ojrifkin
· More posts about: Crazy Legs Conti, Media, Podcasts

A video clip of Crazy Legs Conti’s phone interview on the April 1 “Mike and Mike” show can be viewed on ESPN.com. A graphic lists Crazy Legs’ first name as “Kevin”. That video clip is available for download.
The full interview is available in an audio podcast. Crazy Legs’ interview starts around the 30 minute mark. Crazy Legs will probably be a commentator for Mike Golic’s contest and he suggests Krystal burgers as the food. Conti says that Sonya will not defend her 2005 title at the Acme Oyster eating contest.
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March 9, 2008 at 8:06 am
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ojrifkin
· More posts about: Contest Results, Crazy Legs Conti
Observer-Reporter has an article about last night’s pierogie eating contest held at the Men’s Culinary Classic in Washington County, PA that was MCed by Crazy Legs Conti. Zach O’Brien won with 18 pierogies in 6 minutes.
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March 4, 2008 at 9:39 am
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ojrifkin
· More posts about: Crazy Legs Conti, Videos

An advertisement Crazy Legs Conti did for Daisy May’s Barbecue in New York City can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQn-S1yNDuc The commercial has run on local cable according to the video description.
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February 19, 2008 at 12:41 pm
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ojrifkin
· More posts about: Contest Previews, Crazy Legs Conti
Observer-Reporter announces that Crazy Legs Conti will emcee and judge a pierogi eating contest in Washington County, Pennsylvania at the Men’s Culinary Classic on March 8. The contest will be 6 minutes long and it is not stated if the competition will be IFOCE sanctioned.
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February 2, 2008 at 11:59 pm
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ojrifkin
· More posts about: Crazy Legs Conti, Media, Videos
(From Matt Sollars) “American Stomach” author Frederick Kaufman reports that Crazy Legs Conti performed an oyster taste test at the Grand Central Station Oyster Bar in which he tried to identify one of seven oysters that was genetically modified. A video of the taste test is available on youtube.
2 “American Stomach” reviews are out: LA Times, Time Out New York
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January 25, 2008 at 11:25 pm
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ojrifkin
· More posts about: College Contests, Crazy Legs Conti, Wing Bowl
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