While I was in bed with the flu on the 4th of July, American Joey Chestnut gobbled up a record 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes in the annual hot dog eating contest at Coney Island. Chestnut beat out six-time champion Takeru Kabayashi by consuming one dog every 10.9 seconds.
There are five things I find astounding about this event:
1) That anyone could inhale that many hot dogs in such a short time without barfing.
2) That ESPN finds the event worthy of live national TV coverage
3) That people will actually watch this stuff, either in person or on TV
4) That this competition has been an annual event since 1916
5) That I'm wasting perfectly good Web space writing about this crap on my blog.
Seriously, this event has generated more media attention than it's worth. So enough already!
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