Ringer.com has an article about diets NFL linemen eat to gain weight for football.

Bartch is a big guy, 6-foot-6 with a flowing mane of auburn-colored locks, but by his admission he was “never a tubby kid” growing up. Packing on that much weight to pursue his dream job was an arduous process; his days were full of rigorous workouts and endless eating sessions, so Bartch devised a hack. The summer after his sophomore year, he streamlined his breakfast. Instead of eating a giant meal with a host of individual items, Bartch combined them into a smoothie consisting of seven scrambled eggs, a tub of cottage cheese, grits, peanut butter, a banana, and Gatorade. He drank that four days a week, and it helped him grow from 250 pounds to 276 by the time school started again. The way he saw it, it was just a way to cut down on all that chewing. When this year’s combine rolled around, it had been years since he’d consumed the shake, and he hadn’t thought much about it.

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The top 5 from the CrossFAT Krispy Kreme donut eating contest
12 donuts
1 Wayne Algenio 1:10
2 Your Man Cody 1:15
3 Sad Things Tim Says 1:34
4 Raina Huang 1:50
5 Track the Bear 2:00
Derek Hendrickson submitted the fastest video for 12 donuts with a time of 1:06, but could not officially compete due to his MLE contract.

6 donuts
1 El Toro Jiminez 0:52
2 Zachary Linton 1:20
3 Olivia Gregory 1:35
4 GSloth30 1:47
5T _swaaan 2:07
5T JNacht16 2:07D

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An April 21 SEC document for Nathan’s Famous announces that the company has received a $1.22M Paycheck Protection Program loan from the federal government and that its hot dogs were produced by a currently closed Smithfield Foods meatpacking plant in Sioux Falls, SD which has been labelled as the top coronavirus hotspot in the USA. Despite the shutdown, Nathan’s does not expect a disruption in national frankfurter supplies even if the facility’s reopening (currently scheduled for the week of April 27) is delayed.

The primary manufacturer of our hot dogs, Smithfield Foods, has recently announced the closure of four of its plants due to COVID-19. The only plant closure that has any relationship to our operations is the Sioux Falls plant which is currently scheduled to reopen during the week of April 27, 2020. In the event that the Smithfield Foods plant reopening is delayed, we do not anticipate that the rapidly evolving COVID-19 outbreak will have a material adverse effect on our supply of hot dogs over the next several months.

update Daily Beast reports that Nathan’s will return the loan.

update April 28 President Trump announced he will invoke the Defense Production Act to force meatpacking facilities to remain open. Nathan’s Famous executive chairman Howard Lorber is a friend of the Trump family and hosted a fundraiser in 2018.

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Official Results – finals
1:50 Joey Chestnut (Penalized 1 Sec)
2:48 Gideon Oji (Penalized 5 Sec)

3rd place
2:36 Nick Wehry (Penalized 3 Sec)
2:40 Darron Breeden (Penalized 1 Sec)

The BetOnline Quarantine Challenge Finals between Gideon Oji and Joey Chestnut can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNkbtTZd-A The food will be 10 cups of Nissin Cup Ramen. There will also be a third place matchup between Darron Breeden and Nick Wehry.

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Results
Gideon Oji 1:45 (penalized 2 seconds)
Darron Breeden 2:10

Joey Chestnut 2:03
Nick Wehry 3:35

The semifinals can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro1DQ1YsDA4

The matchups are Darron Breeden vs. Gideon Oji and Joey Chestnut vs. Nick Wehry

The food is 10 pounds of baked beans

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