Joey Chestnut Sports Illustrated interview
Joey Chestnut did an interview with Sports Illustrated about his estrangement from MLE
SI: So you felt blindsided? This was just out there, and it wasn’t something you’d known would happen when you signed with Impossible, and it wasn’t something you’d heard about from the Shea brothers or Major League Eating?
JC: Absolutely not. Everything with Impossible was perfectly fine by all my previous agreements. They changed terms and conditions [around] exclusivity. And it’s not the first time they’ve changed some things, but it’s the first time they’ve really changed things after the fact, and I had to say, “Hey, it’s too late, I’ve already started working with this brand.” This was never an issue in the past. And they tried to dance around it—they changed a lot of terms, and then they escalated things to a degree they didn’t imagine when they started leaking information and telling people I was banned and that I turned vegan, which clearly isn’t the case.
SI: When was the last time you talked to the Shea brothers?
JC: They both sent me a little message saying, pretty much, that they’re sorry it got ugly. One of them said hopefully we can have beers in the future. But they’re not bad people, they’re just them, and that’s the way they are. I just—I didn’t expect it to go the way it did. I’m always willing to make concessions and willing to meet people in the middle. If I start something, I like to finish it, and if we started negotiating, I didn’t want to be sent away or banned. I thought we could finally get it. But it didn’t work out that way.
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Anonymous said
July 3, 2024 @ 4:36 pm
Joey had to know what would happen if he signed with another brand of hotdog. His quotes about apologies are simply silly. It was his management team which could not come to terms with MLE. I suspect strongly that Impossible foods would, like MLE, not want him to eat and therefore promote Nathans in competition with their brand.
Anonymous said
July 6, 2024 @ 2:57 pm
George shea is the biggest phoney on the face of the earth