Competitive Eating on ESPN

[sydally9367]

Holy moly, you KNOW there is nothing else on TV when I get sucked into watching competitive eating on ESPN2 I always watch the Nathans Hot Dog Eating competition on 4th of July because oddly enough, I find it somewhat entertaining, but I had NO idea there were so many others! Tonight I watched the Bratwurst eating competition and the Krystal Burger competition and I don't think I'll eat ever again after watching them It was like a complete trainwreck, as hard as I tried, I just couldn't turn away!! Kobiyashi (sp?) won both competitions by eating 59 bratwurst in 10 minutes and 95 Krystal burgers in 8 minutes. 95 BURGERS IN 8 MINUTES!!!!! I don't eat meat anymore but when I did, I could only eat like 5 of those things and it certainly wasn't in 8 minutes LOL. I don't know how these people do it and more importantly, WHY they do it!!! Not only that, when they were announcing the competitors, they would mention what other contests they had been a part of and there was everything from birthday cake ( I could handle that LOL ) to Waffle House waffles, from deep fried green beans to someone who ate 29 dozen oysters!! It was so disgusting but I just kept on watching

 

[clarabelle]

I am really repulsed by it and feel it is maybe dangerous.
I wish it weren't so popular

 

[reeeoga]

ITs that or poker! They are both a sport?!? OR poker on the Travel channel?!?!

Can we next get the "all Pick-up-Sticks" channel?

 

[ADisneygirl]

I can't watch that stuff -- it makes me sick! How can anyone eat that much at one time??? It is so bad for their health.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

It is weird.
I have watched a few competitions.

 

[Planogirl]

ITs that or poker! They are both a sport?!? OR poker on the Travel channel?!?!

Can we next get the "all Pick-up-Sticks" channel?

DH loves watching Poker and thinks it's very competitive. I just keep wishing that we had the kind of money these players win.