The BBC News has an article asking the question "Is competitive eating the world's weirdest sport?" with quotes from Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi.

August 5, 2010 at 4:48 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Joey Chestnut, Kobayashi (小林尊) | Permalink * Comments (19)

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  1. Mega Munch said

    August 6, 2010 @ 12:32 pm

    No way it’s the world’s weirdest sport. Rick Reilly’s new book is all about weird sports and there are a lot weirder sports out there. In Finland they have the annual World Sauna Championships. Grown men sitting half naked in a 230 degree sauna (yes, 230 degrees fahrenheit… keep in mind that water BOILS at 212) to see who that last one standing is. I’m not kidding. http://www.offbeattravel.com/sauna-championship-finland.html

  2. gavonne said

    August 7, 2010 @ 6:59 am

    Competitive eating is not a sport.It’s a freakshow,an abomination,a perversity of one of man’s most basic needs.Except for the top eaters who make good money from it,it attracts bored suburbanites & lonely,ugly women who normal,regular guys wouldn’t give a second look at.For example…

  3. anonymous said

    August 7, 2010 @ 10:42 am

    Thats why nobody takes you serious gavonee. Bored suburbanites and lonely ugly women? But you still register for the events just so someone in society will hopefully accept you somewhere

  4. gavonne said

    August 7, 2010 @ 11:57 am

    Yes,please please accept me!!! I should have also said dumb-asses who don’t understand sarcasm & people who get all the facts wrong(like beautiful brian).It’s not the weirdest but certainly the lowest.Have you seen some of the mongoloids in AICE?

  5. Anonymous said

    August 7, 2010 @ 1:34 pm

    Gavonne you need to return to your home.

  6. Anonymous said

    August 7, 2010 @ 5:32 pm

    Unfortunately this thread has deteriorated into inappropriate content. Making fun of some people often crosses a line on this site, but it is the last sentence which needs to be edited. Gavonne, using a word to describe people with a hereditary condition shows insensitivity and ignorance no matter who you think you are describing, AICE, MLE or anyone. Just a heads up to think a bit about things before you post.

  7. anonymous said

    August 7, 2010 @ 7:12 pm

    The insensitivity and ignorance doesnt seem to bother anyone on facebook. He is added on and accepted with open arms

  8. anonymous said

    August 7, 2010 @ 7:30 pm

    We need a competitive eating chat room so everyone can talk shit and get whatever they got to get off they chest . Certainly betta than this shit

  9. gastroboy said

    August 7, 2010 @ 7:31 pm

    Mega Munch: The World Sauna Championships organicers never claimed that activity was a sport, but a championship. I think a competitor did in an interview though. But TBH there are still other really dumb sports out there. I’ve build a huge list of funny competitions arround the world and the ones i recall being claimed sports right now are:

    Rock paper scissors:
    http://www.worldrps.com/

    Profesional Frisbie (antidrug test at competitions!) (I suspect there is more that one association just like IFOCE and AICE):
    http://freestyledisc.org

    Major League Gaming (videogames) (not 100% sure if they claimed it was a sport):
    http://www.mlgpro.com/

    Then there is the gurning competition (face-pulling), wishtle competition, pea-shotting competition, paper airplanes competition, cheese rolling competition etc (a very long etc). But they have never claimed to be sports as CE has.

  10. Anonymous said

    August 7, 2010 @ 8:21 pm

    Has anyone any Grey Poupon?

  11. ojrifkin said (Registered July 27, 2005)

    August 7, 2010 @ 8:22 pm

    One of the finalists in the World Sauna Championships died

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10904691

  12. gavonne said

    August 8, 2010 @ 5:49 am

    Yes,that was very insensitive.I apolgize to mongoloids everywhere.Competitive eating has allowed me to meet some truly wonderful people like Booker,Joel The Cannon,Crazy Legs & Pat From Moonachie.Those who dislike me because their minds were poisoned by jerks who spread lies about me(like Seiken)can kiss my ass.Those who have gotten to know me can attest that I am all about love.Now excuse me,it’s time for my sauna.

  13. YOU AGAIN? said

    August 8, 2010 @ 8:40 am

    Now we have to look forward to seeing your face at every single IFOCE event that is within traveling distance of your shelter vacility? One good thing you can say about AICE, is that they look out for the well being of the eaters by making sure you cannot set foot on the premisis during one of their events

  14. Anonymous said

    August 8, 2010 @ 9:04 am

    That is a very nice apology and statement Gavonne. I hope you are being humorous in the last line.

  15. anonymous said

    August 8, 2010 @ 11:05 am

    apology? the guy is whacked. Apology one minute the next minute stalking someone else that wants no part of him

  16. Facebook???? said

    August 8, 2010 @ 11:56 am

    did someone mention facebook? Anyone that posts minute by minute updates of their entire life on facebook has no life and i dont care how many times they boast how wonderful the family life is at home or how great the marriage is. Get a real life instead of using the keypad as an alternative

  17. gavonne said

    August 9, 2010 @ 9:17 am

    Vacility?!?!?You sound as illiterate as seiken.Sorry to dissapoint you but I don’t live in a shelter-I live on a schooner anchored in the waters under the Varrazano with a great view of Bay Ridge.

  18. nunonabun2 said (Registered November 10, 2009)

    August 9, 2010 @ 11:07 am

    Schooner? I heard it was a sailboat.

  19. Anonymous said

    August 9, 2010 @ 12:45 pm

    Yep, someone made me laugh. I like grey poupon. I suggest that Seiken and Gavonne quit their whatever. It isn’t going anywhere good for either. Someone, please please help Seiken with his website as you promised. Work on your own territories without trying to make each other the evil one. Not entertaining.

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