The new poll asks that if a competitive eating Hall of Fame was started and top eaters were alleged to have used performance enhancing drugs, should that affect their chances for Hall of Fame entrance.

June 11, 2009 at 12:10 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Training | Permalink * Comments (22)

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  1. Anonymous said

    June 11, 2009 @ 1:05 pm

    You’ve got two hypotheticals as the foundation of the question. I think we’re reaching here.

  2. Anonymous said

    June 11, 2009 @ 1:29 pm

    Did Pete Rose get into the baseball hall of fame because of his gambling?

  3. Aobnoximous said

    June 11, 2009 @ 1:31 pm

    Didn’t Todd the butler already start a Wall of Fame in his house? Maybe we should call him, and see what his criteria is…..or maybe not, based on his last web-posted picture

  4. Anonymous said

    June 11, 2009 @ 1:33 pm

    Is marijuana considered a Performance Enhancing Drug?

  5. anonymous said

    June 11, 2009 @ 2:05 pm

    IF thats the case the hall of fame wouldnt be much of a tourist attraction considering a good percentage of these so called legends of the sport are using some kind of illegal drugs. No mortal human being can eat 66 hot dogs unless some drastic change is being applied to the body. If you fools want to believe its natural appetite then you are nothing but a fool .

  6. Steakbellie said (Registered August 11, 2006)

    June 11, 2009 @ 4:46 pm

    I believe a drug could make you hungry and I believe that a drug could speed digestion. I don’t believe that there’s any drug that will help in a contest however. There’s no digestion happening in 10 minutes. No drug is going to stretch your stomach out for you. You do that on your own.

  7. Anonymous said

    June 12, 2009 @ 12:48 am

    BUT THE DRUGS WILL NUMB THE SWOLLOWING PROCESS AND CUT YOUR GAGGING REFLEXES..AND THERE ARE THOSE WHO ABUSE

  8. Steakbellie said (Registered August 11, 2006)

    June 12, 2009 @ 8:06 am

    Arnie, you cant put 66lbs of Birdseed in an 8lbs bag. No matter how many drugs you take to make yourself hungry. It’s simple volume. Also, so what if you numb the throat? People gag when they are full and about to puke. Numbing their throat doest do anything.

    Wait, I thought you werent allowed to post here? or is that rule for everyone but you?

  9. Not a doctor but... said

    June 12, 2009 @ 9:45 am

    A shot of cortisone numbs the pain, is that really a PED?

  10. Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)

    June 12, 2009 @ 10:41 am

    Testing for PEDs, even if they did exist, would be a waste of time. I think accusing someone of using them is a cop out —- a rationalization for those who don’t eat as much as or as fast as they’d like.

    It is an extraordinary person who can eat a dozen or more hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes. As we see more and more people doing over 15, 20, or 30 and beyond, we get desensitized to how fantastic these performances really are.

    Twenty HDBs are 20 HDBs and few can do it!

  11. Mega Munch said

    June 12, 2009 @ 1:06 pm

    A CE Hall of Fame would be awesome. If the IFOCEMLE won’t get it up and running, maybe a consortium of fans should give it a shot. Having the HOF in neutral hands would be better anyhow. That way, candidates aren’t limited to IFOCEMLE eaters only. Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson were the first players voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. If the Competitive Eating Hall of Fame were opened today, which five eaters should be in the inaugural class? (All eaters, not just IFOCEMLE. Retired eaters only.)

    Another question to consider is how selective the CEHOF would be. Would it be like football, where anyone who strung together three or four above average seasons would get in, or would it be like baseball, with higher standards of excellence, where candidates must put together a career in which they dominated at their position?

  12. Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)

    June 12, 2009 @ 2:24 pm

    That’s a good point Mega. A CE Hall of Fame would be awesome and I’d like to see it happen one day, even if not in the next few years.

    Should that day ever come, I think very few of the so-called eating legends (far less than 5 perccent) should be in it. Someone who loves CE and devotes a lot of time to it certainly deserves substantial recognition, but apart from HOF consideration. It just wouldn’t be in the best taste to do so.

    Induction should be based strictly on sustained, exceptional eating performance.

    I also would like to see it on Coney Island —- the home of the most recognized eating event in all of CE. That would seem very appropriate.

    I’m just thinking out loud, so to speak, extending the idea mentally —-just my opnion.

  13. No Mercy Percy said

    June 12, 2009 @ 2:52 pm

    If there was a Hall of Fame today, it would enshrine one person only, Kobayashi. Maybe in another 10 years someone else will come along to make it a pair.

  14. Mega Munch said

    June 12, 2009 @ 3:06 pm

    Good point, Rhonda. The location is key as well and there’s no place more central to CE than Coney Island. Maybe the Nathans on Surf and Stillwell can devote a portion of their large dining area to it. All we’d need is a wall for the plaques and a few display cases for some memorabilia. Imagine the fun induction ceremonies that can be held there.

  15. Dude, where's my Jaw at? said

    June 12, 2009 @ 3:21 pm

    You mean to tell me I took all that novicane for nothing??

  16. Anonymous said

    June 12, 2009 @ 6:02 pm

    There is only one drug that may be considered a PED for competitive eating and that is metoclopramide or Reglan. It is a prokinetic drug used to help with GERD, diabetic gastroparesis and side effects of chemotherapy. It is a very dangerous drug with many harmful side effects. The pros do not outweigh the cons as far as using this for a PED. Its use can result in some irreversible consequences. As far as the idea that marijuana is a PED- get real!!

  17. Pat from Moonachie said

    June 12, 2009 @ 9:42 pm

    “..you cant put 66lbs of Birdseed in an 8lbs bag..” – Steakbellie

    Oh yeah? .. you obviously haven’t seen me in my 1X Famiglia Pizza Contest jersey! 😉

  18. Anonymous said

    June 12, 2009 @ 11:09 pm

    Apparently everyone is avoiding marijuana.
    The shit makes you super hungry.
    And it is good for glaucoma too!

  19. Steakbellie said (Registered August 11, 2006)

    June 12, 2009 @ 11:09 pm

    actually Pat I was eating next to you if you remember. I was blown off the stage when your shirt blew a stitch!

  20. anonymous said

    June 13, 2009 @ 1:46 am

    anonymous 6:02 you wanna bet there are some sickos in competitive eating that would risk their lives experimenting with those type of drugs just to show everyone what a great eaters they have become just to prove that they can excell in something when they have failed in everything else

  21. Anonymous said

    June 13, 2009 @ 9:13 am

    Yeah, but what about the weed.
    Sooooooooooo obviously a great food PED.
    I’m not allowed to post here under my name.
    But the weed?

  22. anonymous said

    June 13, 2009 @ 9:43 am

    I don’t need to wager because i believe it

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