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All residents of southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey are not eligible to attempt a Wing Bowl qualifying stunt or enter a Wing Off qualifier. The Wing Bowl rules have the following restriction:
The contest is open to all WIP listeners who are 21 years of age or older who reside in the Philadelphia metropolitan area – Philadelphia Metropolitan area as defined by Arbitron is the following counties: Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, counties in Pennsylvania; Camden, Gloucester, Mercer counties in New Jersey (the five contestants who are entered through the IFOCE’s automatic bids are exempted from the residence requirement).
A map of the region is available. (The map includes Burlington County, NJ, the largest in the map in New Jersey, which is not part of the Wing Bowl area.) This restricts residents of Allentown, Lancaster, Atlantic City and north Delaware from entering and shuts out Garden Staters Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin and Arturo Rios. Residents of Princeton / Trenton, NJ can enter (Mercer County) but the most famous eater from that area would be prohibited by the 21 age minimum in the minimal chance she wanted to enter.
The Inqlings and Dan Gross column on philly.com have sections about Wing Bowl 15. Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas and Rich LeFevre are listed as three of the five out of towners. Former 76ers owner Pat Croce is rumored to be the next Wing Bowl commisioner. The current projected opening date for El Wingador’s restaurant is sometime in mid-December and it will have a grand opening the day of Wing Bowl 15.
Qualifying contests for Wing Bowl 15 have been announced. Unlike qualifiers for last year’s contest, participants do not need to be college students.
Thursday December 7, 2006
Landmark Americana Tap + Grille
1 East West Street Glassboro, NJ 08028
REGISTRATION TIME: 8:30-9:30
CONTEST STARTS: 10:00 pmThursday January 18, 2007
Trappe Tavern
416 Main Street – Trappe, PA 19462
REGISTRATION: 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
CONTEST STARTS: 9:30 pm“The Glen Macnow Eating Competition.†Competitors must be present at the Slack’s Hoagie Shack between the hours of 10am and 3pm on Saturday January 20, 2006 to compete in a 20 minute Buffalo Chicken Hoagie eating competition. Entrants must call into the Glen Macnow show to register
The new poll asks the amount of Wing Bowl 15 posts you would like this website to provide. At least one commenter feels that the Wing Bowl is too fraudulent to merit coverage. (Results will not be binding)
610wip.com has been updated with Wing Bowl 15 information. The only apparent difference between Wing Bowl 15 and 14 is that veterans are allowed back in and the Philadelphia area winner will also receive a car regardless of his/her overall finish. The contest rules say that the duration remains 30 minutes and AICE eaters are still explicitly banned. 5 IFOCE eaters gain entrance automatically to the contest.
The logo for Wing Bowl 15 appears at the top of 610wip.com The only information offered is that there will be eating & wingettes; other details will be provided tomorrow morning.
Angelo Cataldi has more information about Wing Bowl 15 in his new blog entry:
On November 27, the new theme (which will provide an advantage to locals at the expense of out of towners) will be announced and requests to perform qualifiying stunts will be taken.
On December 4 (the day of the Eagles/Panthers Monday Night Football game), tickets will go on sale and a new commissioner to replace the late Eric Gregg will be named. Tickets will still be $5 and the event will be held at the Wachovia Center on Feb 2 The prizes will reportedly be better than the previous year and better than any other competitive eating event in the US, meaning the purse value will have to exceed the $30,000 paid out in Krystal Square Off III.
If Yao Wing intends to compete in Wing Bowl 15, he should probably update yaowing.com, or at least remove the cartoon on the home page, before he attempts his stunt.
Angelo Cataldi says that the format for the upcoming Wing Bowl will be changed, and this alteration will benefit local eaters at the expense of out of towners. The new poll asks what change do you think is most likely.
As of November 13, Wing Bowl 15 has yet to be listed on the Wachovia Center Schedule. If the Wing Bowl is held the Friday morning before the Super Bowl on February 2, the Wachovia Center will have to switch from a hockey rink to the Wing Bowl configuration to basketball in 24 hours.
WIP host Angelo Cataldi answers a question about Wing Bowl 15 in his blog. He says that tickets will probably go on sale the first week of December and a new contest theme and commisioner to replace the late Eric Gregg will be named at that time. The new theme will “address growing concerns that Wing Bowl has become too much of a national event, at the expense of Philadelphia.” We will have to wait until next month to see if those concerns will be addressed by banning or discouraging out of market eaters from competing.
It is surprising that absolutely no information about Wing Bowl 15 regarding eligibility, format, tickets or other aspects of that event have been made public yet given that qualifying stunts usually begin the week after Thanksgiving. WIP’s Wing Bowl page still only has information about Wing Bowl 14. Last year, tickets had been sold out by October 24.
(Thanks Rhonda Evans) Philly.com has a list of highlights from the first ten years of the Wachovia Center. Sonya’s victory in Wing Bowl 12 appears under “Nonsports highlights”
(From anonymous comment) – A video of Joey Chestnut drinking a gallon of milk in 41 seconds in the WIP studios to qualifiy for Wing Bowl 14 is available on youtube.
A clip of Jenny Drumgoole’s documentary about Sonya Thomas at Wing Bowl 13 has been uploaded to youtube. If the documentary will not be released theatrically or direct to DVD, I hope all segments will be available on youtube like the “Chili Dawg” documentary.
(I do not have broadband this week, so I have not watched the documentary and am not sure if it is safe for work)
A documentary about Fino “Chili Dawg” Cachola at Wing Bowl X in 2002 has been uploaded to youtube. The film shows the challenges a Wing Bowl hopeful faces as Chili Dawg attempts to improve his third place finish in Wing Bowl IX. The program lasts about an hour and merits a PG rating, so it is not suitable for all workplaces. Don “Moses” Lerman and “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz have cameos.
Part 1 – Introduction
Part 2 – Qualifying stunt – two chickens & mashed potatos
Part 3 – Training
Part 4 – Weigh In
Part 5 – Pre Contest
Part 6 – First Round
Part 7 – Conclusion
Part 1 hung up on me on two computers so the video file might be corrupt. Parts 2-7 work fine.
Chili Dawg died on December 26, 2004 after qualifying for Wing Bowl XIII. His qualifying stunt is described in Horsemen of the Esophagus and his death is one of the more compelling segments of that book. The documentary provides a lasting tribute to Chili Dawg’s enthusiasm and fighting spirit.
Steakbellie has uploaded his Wing Bowl pictures from February to http://www.flickr.com/photos/steakbellie/sets/72157594170484655/ There are 668 pictures in total. Some photographs of Wingettes are not safe for all workplaces.
Yahoo! sports reports that former major league umpire and Wing Bowl commissioner Eric Gregg has died at age 55 of a stroke he suffered yesterday.
Philly.com reports that Eric Gregg, chief Wing Bowl judge and former Major League umpire, experienced a stroke Sunday morning. While the competitive eating community may not have always agreed with Gregg’s Wing Bowl decisions, we can all offer our prayers and support to the Gregg family.
Philly.com reports that “Swallow Your Pride”, a documentary about Bill “El Wingador” Simmons winning his fifth Wing Bowl crown in Wing Bowl 13, will be screened at the First Glance Film Festival in Philadelphia on Sunday night. Tickets are $10. Porn star/ former California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey stars in a movie to be screened Saturday night.
This blog entry provides an update on the efforts of the creators of the documentary Swallow Your Pride to obtain distribution for their film. The movie filmed at Wing Bowl 13 was screened last summer and received positive reviews but apparently no additional showings have taken place since that time. The film was not accepted by the Sundance Film Festival, but the documentarians sent Bill “El Winagdor” Simmons a copy that was forwarded to Mike Tollin, who is producing a fictional Wing Bowl movie starring (according to the blog) Adam Sandler . Tollin loved the movie and connected the film’s creators with the distributor of Napoleon Dynamite, Super Size Me and other independent films.
Swallow Your Pride has a domain name reserved at swallowyourpridemovie.com, but that URL is completely content-free.
Angelo Cataldi has a Wing Bowl 14 FAQ on his website. He assumed that eliminating previous competitors would ensure that the victor would be from the Delaware Valley and that the Wing Bowl movie is several years away from a premier. Cataldi is considering a format change for future Wing Bowls.
phillyfuture has a blog entry with an eyewitness account of Wing Bowl 14.
phillysportsline has a gallery of Wing Bowl 14 (free registration is required to see the pictures)
about.com has a Wing Bowl 14 article and captioned photo gallery. I agree with the article’s claim that Rich’s blonde wingette should have definitely been one of the 10 finalists. The captions say that one of the 10 finalist wingettes, Lisa Marie, was 6’5 (she should maybe consider entering Wing Bowl 15)
zwire.com has profiles of Timothy “Dr. Slob” Cusick and Bill “Robocop” Sampolski.
A Sports Illustrated blog has a fake quote from Joey Chestnut which a reader might not notice is bogus if s/he is not paying close attention.
The News of Delaware County has a profile of two competitors from that region, Eric “MacWing” Livingston and Scott “Boss Hog” Zimmerman.
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