It's Saturday night, and I'm sitting on the couch watching ESPN. Guess what's on? The 2007 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. Now if you all have been following the news, you know that Takeru Kobayashi didn't win this year, losing out to San Jose native Joey Chestnut. (Chestnut ate 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes; Kobayashi downed 63.) Chestnut's been vying to beat Kobayashi in this competition—any competition, for that matter—for years, and now he's finally done it.
Despite acute jaw pains that kept his participation up in the air until the day of, Kobayashi rolled up to the Coney Island contest grounds in a black limo with two big bodyguards and his wife/girlfriend/woman friend. Clearly, Coney Island was the place to be this 4th—thousands upon thousands lined the streets to see who was gonna take home the Mustard Belt.
Other contestants included Patrick Bertoletti, who beat Chestnut in a jalapeno-eating competition earlier this year; Tim Janus, who paints signature Xes around his eyes with face paint; two super-cute Asian women, Juliette Lee and Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas; Crazy Legs "Houdini of Cuisini" Conti; a 63-year old grandpa; and a vegetarian.
So what's next on ESPN? The USA Rock Paper Scissors Championship. I'm serious! Next Saturday. I hope I have something better to do next Saturday then watch that shit, but if I don't, I'll post an update.
Chestnut didn't win any money, btw—just a one year supply of hot dogs. Barf.
Too bad they don't play the ultimate version of the game: RPS-25:
http://www.umop.com/rps25.htm
I wonder how the competitors in the RPS Champioship would do against these software opponents:
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsbpc.html
Posted by: mangolassie | July 08, 2007 at 10:20 AM