Former Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford has a column for NPR about Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest calling it "pornography of sport".

June 29, 2011 at 7:32 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2011 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest | Permalink * Comments (3)

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  1. Award-winning said

    June 29, 2011 @ 8:50 am

    Writing total fluff softball articles like this for NPR explains why he’s a FORMER Sports Illustrated writer.

  2. Anonymous said

    June 29, 2011 @ 8:57 am

    Timing is sometimes everything. Perhaps CLC was prescient. Hard to believe but Mr. Eatfeats has missed something by Crazy Legs the writer. Direct from the competitor no less.

  3. Damon Wells said

    June 29, 2011 @ 1:04 pm

    Ignorance is bliss and Frank Deford is living in the land of rainbows and lollipops.

    Anybody who doesn’t at least consider Competitive eating a sport obviously hasn’t ever participated in any athletics competitively (My guess is Frank was his schools score keeper and not the starting quarter back) and if they have they haven’t tried their hand at competitive eating. Much like any serious athlete, eaters train, prep and some even review tape… It’s hard work to get to a serious competitive level and even with hard work some simply aren’t cut out for it. Sure any Joe Shmoe can walk up to a table and compete in a contest but they aren’t considered a competitive eater if they get trounced 5 HDB’s to a Pro who put in the training, time effort and hard work to get down 30+… Would I be considered a boxer if I laced up some gloves had zero boxing training whatsoever and walked into a ring with Manny Pacquiao?

    Making porno a sport? That’s about the most asinine statement I’ve heard, what a shitty attempt to be shocking. Frank almost seems bitter that people watch Nathan’s on the 4th instead of focusing all their attention on his beloved baseball… “Waaah, their aren’t anymore double hitters on the 4th”, I say good, it would be torture for me to have to sit through 18 innings of baseball on TV and if they did have double hitters, I have the option to NOT WATCH! If you don’t like it, if you deem it gross, pointless and a waste of time then I suggest you do the same Mr. D(ouche)eFord and not watch. While Competitive eating isn’t for everybody it isn’t anymore pointless or stupid as say tennis where you hit furry balls back and forth and yet people are interested in that…

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