• Article about the absence of Steakbellie and other professional eaters from Wing Bowl 17
• Philly.com on Gluteus Waximus’ float construction
• Wing Bowl 17 Pep Rally at Paddy Whack’s Thursday

The new poll asks what you how many wings the winner of Wing Bowl 17 will eat. I think that Gentleman Jerry has the top personal best in the field at 167 wings in 2007.

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• Drew Cerza, founder of the Buffalo Wing Festival, to be emcee at Wing Bowl 17
• Report on Tuesday’s Wing Off
• L & L Corned Beef Musubi eating contest February 15. First prize includes a trip to Hawaii
• Skinnyboy’s report from the KBPI Wing Bowl semifinals
• Moses News has a lot of new material, including a review of Katz’ Deli, featured in last week’s Man vs. Food
• Picture of the Big Texan 72 ounce steak finishers list from 2007. Kevin Carr is one of the finishers.

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• This week’s Philly.com Wing Bowl column profiles John “Stormin Norman” Tiska and Rick “The Manager” Russo
• Delco Times wants to hear from Wing Bowl fans & contestants
• Video of Joey Chestnut vs. Pack 340 leader
• Video of Boston crepe eating contest
• Billy the Fridge to have a donut eating contest at his Fantasy Freak Show CD release party February 26
• Buffet ejection contest in Louisana (make sure to read the last line)

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The list of entrants in the Wing Bowl finals have been updated to report that Frank de Fraud won last night’s Wing Off qualifier by eating 28 wings in 10 minutes. The Courier-Post has an article (without results) and gallery from that contest.

“Gentleman” Jerry Coughlan, who performed a jelly doughnut stunt, and Wing Bowl 8 winner “Tollman” Joe Paul (no Wing Off or stunt listed) are other new qualifiers.

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(From Sadie Carpenter & Carlos) The Hungry Sisters blog has an article about Rick “The Manager” Russo’s qualification for Wing Bowl 17. Russo served as Dave “The Dumpster” Moyer’s manager in previous Wing Bowls.

Badlands Booker wrote the theme song for Rick the Manager, which can be listened to on RickTheManager.com A myspace page is also available.

A video of Rick’s qualification stunt of eating 4 feet of sushi served on the bodies of two lingerie wearing females can be viewed on youtube. (This is not the first time sushi consumption off of a female body has been recorded; in The Surreal Life, MC Hammer, Emmanuel Lewis and Corey Feldman refuse to eat sushi served on a naked woman.)

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Dan Gross has a column about several Wing Bowl 17 competitors. “Damaging” Doug Canavin says that he thinks that 150 wings will win the contest, but his goal is 175 wings. Canavin qualified for Wing Bowl 17 by eating 5 sliders in 5 minutes. The column hints that Phillies pitcher Kyle Kendrick, whose previous brush with competitive eating involved being in a prank trade for ‘Kobayashi”, could be part of Damaging Doug’s entourage.

A list of all 150+ wing results in the eatfeats database is available after the jump
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Mike Westinghouse commented that the Wing Bowl documentary Swallow Your Pride is available on itunes. The cost is $3.99 to rent, $14.99 to purchase.

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A gallery of Saturday’s Wing Off at Slack’s Hoagie Shack has been posted on 610wip.com. “The Caveman” was the winner with 54 wings in 10 minutes.

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• Review of Quest for the Golden Hot Dog
• 4 person USA vs. Canada team slider eating contest in Toronto on February 8, 2009. “Furious” Pete Czerwinski will captain the Canadian team
• List of all Wing Bowl 17 finalists on 610WIP.com. “Obi Wing” and “Damaging” Doug are the only repeat competitors at this moment I am aware of
• Wrestler “The Executioner” sets restaurant record by eating 10 pattie burger
• Picture of menu at Wintzell’s Oyster House which lists the current oyster eating records (Men – Joe Evans: 403, Women – Julia Ward: 280)
• Picture of Sonya Thomas and Rickey Henderson (on right) from the 2005 San Diego Golden Palace qualifier. Rickey Henderson is expected to be announced as one of the new baseball Hall of Fame members today

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A photo gallery of last night’s Wing Off at Paddy Whacks Irish Sports Bar is available at 610wip.com Cadillac Carrigan won the qualifier by eating 56 wings in 10 minutes, defeating Gentleman Jerry, the top eater in Wing Bowl 15 and 16 eligible to compete in Wing Bowl 17.

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Josh Camerote, director of the 2005 Wing Bowl documentary, Swallow Your Pride, reports that his film will be officially released by Cinetic Media. The release date was supposed to take place last month, but the film has yet to come out. The movie’s official website just says “Check back soon”

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• Philly.com reports that Wing Kong is training a Wing Bowl 17 hopeful. Wing Kong thinks this year’s winner will not eat more than 50% of the wings Joey Chestnut ate in Wing Bowl 16.
• Angelo Cataldi says this could be his final year at 610 WIP. If that is the case, will the Wing Bowl outlast his tenure?
• Pete Davekos’ Garlicky Greens victory makes ESPN.com’s list of the lesser-known champs of 2008, which will probably appear in the ESPN magazine
• Pete Davekos to appear on NPR’s The Splendid Table this weekend (from email) – radio stations
• 24 ounce steak eating battle of the sexes
• Man vs. Food Facebook page
• Adam Richman of Man vs. Food interviewed by Andrew Zimmern
• Kobayashi has yet to mention his fruitcake record attempt on his blog

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A list of eaters who have qualified for the upcoming Wing Bowl follows:

The winner of the first Wing Off has been posted. “Chicken Cesar” ate 4.5 Pilgrim sandwiches to qualify.

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The Wing Bowl page on 610WIP.com announces that tickets for the upcoming Wing Bowl are all sold three days after going on sale. The ticket purchase link remains active, but a message saying no tickets are available will result after entering an amount.

Tickets to Wing Bowl 16 sold out in 45 minutes.

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A list of 7 “Wing Off” qualifiers is available on 610WIP’s Wing Bowl 17 page. Winners of the Wing-Offs will receive a slot in the Wing Bowl. The first qualifier will take place tomorrow at PJ Whelihan’s in Maple Shade, New Jersey. The second Wing Off will take place at Paddywhack’s in Philadelphia on January 9. There will be 6 Wing Offs between January 9 and January 22. The Wing Offs will be co-hosted by former Eagle Hugh Douglas, so wearing a Terrell Owens jersey to the contest is probably not advisable. 😉

update Here is a list of the Wing Offs:

A link to the live chat page for the chat session hosted by Adam Richman of Man vs. Food is available on the Travel Channel website. The chat will begin at 11 pm eastern and run until midnight. There will also be a chat for viewers only starting at 9 pm.

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• As of 10:30 am eastern, Wing Bowl 17 tickets appear available on ComcastTix.com Here is the direct link to the ticket buying page
• Pat Bertoletti ranks his favorite Chicago pizzas
• “Kid” Cary DeGrosa has a new column about OJ which embeds a video from September 2007 (from “Beautiful” Brian email)
• (from Wasted Food) Rich Shea podcast (starts at about the 50 minute mark) Shea continues to assert that competitive eating is the world’s fastest growing sport, but admits he has no factual basis for that statement.
• Encounter (in English) with Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara at a restaurant
• Cameron McKirdy (now known as “Consumption”) has updated his website http://www.deathbyconsumption.com/
• Adam Richman of Man vs. Food to do a live online video chat on Wednesday at 11 pm eastern
• Mario’s Flying Pizza in Galveston, TX to celebrate reopening after Hurricane Ike with eating contests Wednesday

update As of 1:30pm eastern, upper level Wing Bowl tickets appear to be available

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Qualification attempt videos for Wing Bowl 17 are not being placed on the philly.com Wing Bowl page, but are appearing on the sports video page instead. The most recent video is of Dan “Judge Eat-Oh”‘s attempt to eat 10 cheese steak egg rolls in 2 minutes. The bacon attempt by Larry “Below Me” is also available.

If anyone missed it, Wing Bowl 17 tickets go on sale tomorrow at 9 am.

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NJ.com has information about tickets for Wing Bowl 17 going on sale on Monday. The time tickets will become available has been advanced to 9 am. The original time was 10 am. Tickets can be purchased online at ComcastTix.com, over the phone or in person at the Wachovia Complex box office. Ticket prices have been increased to $7.50, a $2.50 increase from last year and there is a $2.50 service charge per phone or online order. The maximum number of tickets that can be purchased in one order is 6.

At 10 am Monday, tickets to the final 76ers game at the Spectrum will become available. The first 500 fans who purchase tickets at the box office will get to take a tour of the Spectrum and meet former 76ers.

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A hot dog eating contest will be held in conjunction with Dollar Dog Night when the Philadelphia Flyers host the Carolina Hurricanes tomorrow. The first prize is a retro Flyers jersey. There will be no limit to the number of dollar hot dogs spectators can purchase. The Flyers hope to sell 20,000 hot dogs, breaking last year’s mark of 19,000.

The Washington Captals sold 13,700 hot dogs at last week’s Dollar Dog Night, breaking last year’s mark of 12,000.

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The 610 WIP Wing Bowl 17 page has added links to photos and videos of the qualifying stunts. ClarkieGirl73 has a blog entry about her friend Larry Norris’ successful stunt this morning in which he ate 5 pounds of bacon in 8 minutes and 30 seconds. The Philly.com Wing Bowl page has not been updated with any information about qualification attempts for the upcoming Wing Bowl.

The Wing Bowl 17 logo, which looks like the Phillies logo, has been also been added to the 610WIP page.

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Angelo Cataldi has updated his website with information about Wing Bowl 17 which announces his intention to reopen the contest to professionals in 2010. Any previous participation in a professional eating contest will make a contestant ineligible for the upcoming Wing Bowl.

The biggest change is that, for one year only, we are declaring ineligible any contestant who has ever competed in a professionally sanctioned eating contest. This means all members of the Major League Eating organization (formerly IFOCE) are not welcome to participate, including our reigning two-time champion, Joey Chestnut. All of the other great pro eaters of the past – Sonya Thomas, Patrick Bertoletti, Don “Moses” Lerman, and even five-time champ El Wingador – are out for Wing Bowl 17.

We made this decision for one reason: We want to find the absolute best new eater in the Delaware Valley, and we believe opening it up to the Average Joes out there will attract some contestants who have never before tried competitive eating. Next year, our Wing Bowl 17 champion will have to defend his title against the best eaters in the world.

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Peter Mucha of Philly.com reports that Angelo Cataldi announced on his radio show this morning that the 2009 Wing Bowl will not allow “professional” and / or non-local competitive eaters:

Spurred by the 25,000 fans who attended last year, “this year we have decided to do something dramatic about Wing Bowl,” Cataldi said to cohost Al Morganti, “This year, Al, we are going back to the roots of Wing Bowl.”

“We got rid of all the pros that came in from out of town,” said Morganti, who came up with Wing Bowl so frustrated Eagles fans could have some fun during Super Bowl week. “We decided to make it all Philadelphia and go neighborhood.”

The residency area for locals is not defined in the article.

Tickets will go on sale at ComcastTix.com at 10 am December 15.

The grand prize will be a 2009 Mini Cooper Clubman and the members of the top entourage will receive a vacation prize.

Philadelphia Magazine ranks the inaugural Wing Bowl in 1993 at #97 in its list of the top 100 Philadelphia moments.

update (From Sean Gordon comment) 610WIP.com has a page about Wing Bowl 17 with the official rules. There will be 8 Wing Off qualifiers in the Philadelphia area. Even though Wing Bowl 17 is billed as “going back to the neighborhoods”, the only residency restriction in the rules is that entrants must live in the United States:

The contest is open to all WIP listeners who are 21 years of age or older and reside in the United States. Employees of WIP, its corporate parents, affiliated entities, its affiliated advertising agencies, participating sponsors/promotional partners, other radio stations in the Philadelphia metropolitan area and the members of their immediate families are ineligible to participate or win.

Wing Bowl 17 is an amateur eating event with no professional eaters. Any member of professional eating organizations, including but not limited to IFOCE & AICE, are also not eligible to participate in the contest.

It will be interesting to see if former professional eating organization members will be allowed to compete.

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Tickets for the upcoming Wing Bowl can be pre-ordered at WingBowlTickets.com. The most expensive ticket is $125 and the cheapest ticket available is $25. The WIP and philly.com do not appear to have made any announcements when tickets will officially go on sale

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According to a comment made this morning, Micah “Wing Kong” Collins was told that “professionals” would not be allowed to compete in Wing Bowl 17 when he called 610 WIP to inquire about qualifying for that contest. In February, Angelo Cataldi said that he would like to limit entry to the 2009 Wing Bowl to amateurs. WIP appears to have followed through with that restriction.

Cataldi apparently defines “professional eater” as someone who has been associated with a professional eating organization regardless of the level of success obtained in eating contests. If that definition is used to limit entry into Wing Bowl 17, “Gentleman” Jerry Coughlan will probably be the favorite if there is any legitimacy to his top five finishes the previous two Wing Bowls.

In other Wing Bowl news, a press release announces that mail-order chicken wings endorsed by Bill “El Wingador” Simmons will be available at RastelliAtHome.com

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A live blog is currently being conducted for tonight’s screening of the 2005 Wing Bowl documentary “Swallow Your Pride”. At least two (and possibly three) of the six protagonists of the film are in attendance.

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