Philly.com and MyFoxPhilly have articles about the IFOCE prohibiting its members from competing in Wing Bowl 19 even though the restriction on “pro” eaters has been lifted. An agreement in the near future does not appear likely. Wing Bowl founder Al Morganti has the following quote: “George Shea can kiss my Boston a–“.

Philly.com reports that Kobayashi is prohibited from competing because his IFOCE contract is still in effect, but will attend as a spectator. (It would be interesting to learn when it expires).

Some of the prizes are also listed: the overall winner will receive $20,000 and the top local will get a new Dodge Ram pickup.

Brian Subich reports that Dave “US Male” qualified for Wing Bowl this morning: “Congrats to US Male completing his Wing Bowl stunt, your reward….the axe and losing to Wingador” No report on his stunt is currently available on the Wing Bowl website.

Bill “El Wingador” Simmons has decided to come out of retirement for Wing Bowl 19 to attempt to win his sixth title.

update A gallery of US Male’s stunt is available.

Bill “El Wingador” Simmons says his four year old son is responsible for his return to competition.

update Dec 8 http://www.youtube.com/user/BSchultz267 has videos of qualification stunts

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update Sept 18 The Wall Street Journal also has a video

update Sept 17 #2 The Wall Street Journal has a blog entry about the contest.

update Sept 17 DNAInfo has an article and slideshow about the contest. Conti was not disqualified even though he reversed onto his shirt (picture #12). Dave Goldstein is called a second year competitive eater even though he competed in the 2007 Wing Bowl and Buffalo Wing Festival.

update 3:53 The rest of the top 4:
1) Dave “US Male” Goldstein 13 cannolis
2) Crazy Legs Conti 12.75
3) Sean “Flash” Gordon 11.5
4) Larell Marie Mele 9.5

update 3:49 The MLE facebook announces that Dave “US Male” Goldstein won the contest by eating 13 cannolis in 6 minutes.

update 2:53 The contest is over

The contest is expected to start at 2pm eastern. Crazy Legs Conti, in his first contest since the Nathan’s finals, will attempt to defend his title. Sean “Flash” Gordon, Dave “US Male” Goldstein and Larell Marie Mele are also expected to compete. Ed “Cookie” Jarvis will serve as a judge.

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6ABC.com has an article and video from today’s crawfish eating contest at the Showboat Mardi Gras Casino in Atlantic City which reports that Dave “US Male” Goldstein was the unexpected winner of the contest with a total of 4.99 lbs. in 12 minutes. Sonya “The Black Widow” was second.

JustATasteByKellyAnn has a slide show of a training session Eric “Badlands” Booker did for the contest and will have an upcoming article.

update PressOfAtlanticCity has the top five:
1. Dave “US Male Goldstein”, 4.99 lbs.
2. Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, 4.14 lbs.
3. Eric “Badlands” Booker, 3.88 lbs.
4. “Humble” Bob Shoudt 2.83 lbs.
5. Crazy Legs Conti 2.44 lbs.

update #2 a picture of the official scoresheet has been provided (see above) and Wild Bill Myers has entered the original results into the database.

Juliet Lee has updated her writenow page with a crawfish contest report which mentions that the post contest weight of her crawfish pans were higher than the original pre contest weight

update #3 NBC40 has a video clip (from US Male)

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BeautifulBrian.com’s Wing Bowl preview episode features Dave “U. S. Male” Goldstein.

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The Philadelphia Flyers website reports on two spectators at a recent exhibition:

When it comes to competitive eating, Bill “El Wingador” Simmons and Dave “U.S. Male” Goldstein sure know how to pack it in. These top dogs enjoyed Comcast-Spectacor’s “All-You-Can-Eat” section on Tuesday, September 24, at the Philadelphia Flyers game against the New Jersey Devils. The “All-You-Can-Eat” package features hot dogs, soft drinks, popcorn and nacho chips and salsa. These two Wing Bowl wieners ate a combined total of 62 hot dogs, 8 nachos, 10 popcorns and 20 sodas.

The “All-You-Can-Eat” tickets for Philadelphia Flyers games can be purchased exclusively here, by calling 1-800-298-4200 and at Wachovia Complex Box Office.

This philly.com article has more information on the Flyers & 76ers tickets which include all you can eat food.

Philly.com reported on El Wingador’s current activities in August:

El Wingador, the five-time champion of 610 WIP’s Wing Bowl, opened and closed his El Wingador’s to Go (4th & Girard) restaurant earlier this year.

He’s brought his special wing sauce to Just Sports Bar & Grill (600 Route 413) in Bristol, where he’s now a minority partner. Main owner is Sandy Fischer, who by day runs a company called Mortgage Discounters.

Wingador, aka Bill Simmons, hosts at the bar on Mondays and on “Wingador Wednesdays.”

He’s training to return to Wing Bowl next year to battle current champ and eating machine Joey Chestnut. Wingador will hold wing contests at Just Sports, with winners getting a spot in his Wing Bowl entourage.

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The Jewish Exponent has an article about Dave “US Male” Goldstein who finished in the top five of Wing Bowl 15. Goldstein’s qualifying stunt was eating letters, which he accomplished by eating pancakes shaped like letters of the alphabet instead of paper items.

Most readers of this website will probably disagree with the following paragraph (and one will definitely beg to differ):

Goldstein now becomes arguably the best Jewish Wing Bowl competitor, surpassing 2002’s “Lord of the Wings” Alix Friedman and last year’s “Hungry, Hungry Hebrew” Adam Taxin, who both failed to make it to the second round when they competed.

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