Tenth anniversary of The Glutton Bowl
Today is the tenth anniversary of The Glutton Bowl, which was televised on Fox on February 21, 2002
Glutton Bowl links
- Competitors list and results from a Japanese website
- Program recap by RealityNewsOnline
- Video of final round where food was cow brains (with Korean subtitles)
- Video of egg contest round won by Badlands Booker
- Glutton Bowl preview by Buck Wolf focusing on Cookie Jarvis, Don Lerman, Kevin Lipsitz and Charles Hardy
- Recent picture of Cookie Jarvis, Don Lerman and Kevin Lipsitz on TheLermanReport.com
- IFOCE top 68 from March 2002
Of the 34 competitors, I think only 4 (Takeru Kobayashi, Eric “Badlands” Booker, “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti and Jed Donahue) remain currently active in competitive eating. Three others (Don Lerman, Bill “El Wingador” Simmons and Lester Tucker) have competed recently but announced retirement.
Factoids about Glutton Bowl competitors
- One of the two female Glutton Bowl participants, Lorraine Arrol, would marry Kevin Lipsitz
- Lester Tucker won 16 straight quail egg eating contests in Texas, but announced retirement last year.
- Jed Donahue ate one hot dog in the 2006 Nathan’s finals
- Chris Eyre would be arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife in New York City before the 2003 Nathan’s finals. He was reportedly angry at her for kissing William “The Refrigerator” Perry, who competed in the 2003 finals.
- It is almost the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons episode having 9 Major League Baseball players as guest stars (originally televised on February 20, 1992 on Fox). Jose Canseco, one of the baseball players in the epsisode, was scheduled to face off against Glutton Bowl participant Bill “El Wingador” Simmons in a celebrity boxing match in 2009, but Canseco pulled out.
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Blizzz said (Registered July 16, 2008)
February 21, 2012 @ 11:19 pm
I have the glutton bowl on my hard drive, I could probably make that available in its entirety!
I always wondered what happened to Chris “the crusher” Eyre… evidently was crushing his wife!
Blizzz said (Registered July 16, 2008)
February 21, 2012 @ 11:20 pm
Also, Sonny Sabatino Manzi… or something like that… evidently he’s a good used car salesman? 🙂
anonymoose said
February 22, 2012 @ 9:14 am
Lets appreciate that beautful Brian Seiken has since moved up from a ranking of #65 to #40. Keep up the hard work pal.
record keeper said
February 22, 2012 @ 9:39 am
914 he was ranked as high as 24 in 2004. It’s been downhill ever since
anonymous said
February 22, 2012 @ 11:00 am
Brian Seiken was originally invited to the Glutton Bowl but because he didn’t “LIE” about his stats as an eater to the FOX network unlike some other eaters did , his spot was given to someone else.
Anonymous said
February 22, 2012 @ 11:45 am
FOX decided to go with potential stars like Garbage Gut Glum, Robert Wilber Field, and Andrew “Ace” Goldstein.
joe said said
February 22, 2012 @ 3:49 pm
blizzz what do you want for a copy??
Salesman said
February 22, 2012 @ 3:59 pm
Seiken would have really sold the show.
Blizzz said (Registered July 16, 2008)
February 22, 2012 @ 4:20 pm
joe, I’ll have to try to find it again, it’s on some old hard drive, and if I can find it, i’ll upload it somewhere free for everyone.
rigby said
June 27, 2013 @ 1:55 am
I would like to see the glutton bowl 😉
and don’t forget that an Ukranian guy, Oleg Zhornitsky, was in the finals too 😉