Steve Dahl proposes old school CE organization

September 20, 2009 at 11:59 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Pat Bertoletti, Podcasts

A podcast of Pat Bertoletti’s appearance on the Steve Dahl show Friday is available (minutes 37-44) Pat Bertoletti says that a part of his body hurt after the jalapeno eating contest that had never previously experiences post-competition discomfort. Steve Dahl says that dunking in Nathan’s repulses him and proposes an “old school” competitive eating organization that would ban dunking.

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

    September 21, 2009 @ 8:17 am

    I agree with Steve Dahl.

    I wish only the best for Pat, and I hope that discomfort leaves in a hurry so he can resume his winning ways.

  2. Steakbellie said (Registered August 11, 2006)

    September 21, 2009 @ 9:40 am

    I am extremely happy with picnic style rules in Krystal this year. Typically I dont like rule changes because they make it difficult to track progress year over year, but this really reined in the sloppy folks. I am probably in the minority, but I would LOVE Nathans to go picnic style as well. It would certainly make the Duece a much harder achievement.

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

    September 21, 2009 @ 10:03 am

    Steak I could not agree more! It would certainly make the totals more meaningful. Right now they’re bogus. While people may get credit for “eating,” say, 50+ drowned HDBs. All you can really say is that they “went through” that many.

    Not to pick on Tim, but I find it a bit amusing that he ate 53 waterlogged HDBs, yet accrued only 55 Krystal points. And Tim is absolutely NOT a sloppy eater. It just goes to show how ridiculous and unrealistic the fairytale-ish Nathan’s numbers are.

    Dunking is sort of like having male golfers start from the ladies’ tees, yet getting credit as if they started from the mens’ tees.

  4. "Tiny" said (Registered March 5, 2008)

    September 21, 2009 @ 10:35 am

    Apparently Mr.Dahl has not heard of the Association of Independent Competitive Eaters. You know, home of the picnic style rules. Where we do not mush, mash, dunk, or desecrate our food before we eat it.
    If you see this Mr.Dahl please go to competitiveeaters.com and check it out.
    You will not be repulsed.

  5. malvern84 said (Registered May 17, 2009)

    September 21, 2009 @ 11:38 am

    Even though I wasn’t there, seems as if the picnic style rules for KSO has benefited jim reeves and erik denmark, and has weeded out such sloppy eaters like Juliett.

    As for changing the rules for nathan’s…..the time for the contest changed only 2 years ago. I would not be a fan of changing the rules year to year as this would effect numbers and training techniques. Maybe for Nathan’s 2011 should go picnic style.

  6. Nun on a Bun said

    September 21, 2009 @ 12:35 pm

    To dunk or not to dunk is up to the sponsors.

  7. Jennifer said

    September 22, 2009 @ 2:12 pm

    Dunking kind of seems unfair.

    Too much debris.The Lee girl has been getting away with this too long.Now we will see Her totals go south.

  8. Anonymous said

    September 22, 2009 @ 3:28 pm

    One would think dunking would be more fair to the old eaters. They could leave their false teeth at home and just drink their lunch.

  9. James said

    September 23, 2009 @ 2:12 pm

    I agree with Jennifer.

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