My Day at the Nathan's Hot-Dog Eating Contest through Pictures
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by user Roblefko
So yesterday I took the subway down to Coney Island to watch the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. When it was all said and done, Joey Chestnut out-ate Takeru Kobayashi 66-63, beating his own world record, which was previously at 59.5.
Here is my day through the pictures I took:
I got here with around 52 minutes to go before the contest. You can see the scoreboard counting down. When it got to around 10 seconds, the crowd was in a frenzy chanting down 10-9-8... When it got to 0, the announcer disappointed us by saying "No, no, no, we're not starting just yet," and he was met by a chorus of boos.
They introduced each contestant one-by-one. There was the "the guy who named all his teeth, men on top, woman on bottom." Another one was the "grilled-cheese eating, tiramusu-eating, pigs-feet eating, tomato-eating, rice-eating, crab-eating, lobster-eating, champion of the world (they must have named like 20 foods)." Other contestants included the "David Blaine of Bowel Movements," "Th Fourth Horseman of the Esophagus," the guy who "knew the code of Hot Dogs, like Neo coded in the Matrix (seriously, that's what they said)," " The spam eating champion of the world ( not a joke)." Anyway, below is Takeru Kobayashi being introduced to a chorus of "USA", "USA", USA".
By the way, after they introduced all the contestants, they all went back off-stage, and they would re-introduce all of them later once ESPN went live. And then they introduced them about two more times to fill up time. After they had really bad "Nathan girl" dancers to pass the time. Most of the 3 hour event is a waste of time.
Below you can see all the contestants lined up ready to get underway. They each had their own method of how they set up their dogs and drinks. It was like watching great minds at work.
They only kept a live count of Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut, and some guy from Chicago who ended up with 49. Below you can see Chestnut leading 16-12.
Here the lead is 38-35. Chestnut maintained a 4 Hot Dog lead for most of the contestant, and with around 2-3 minutes to go Kobayashi made a furious comeback to tie it, but fell short in the end
This is what Kobayashi looked like with 63 Hot Dogs in his stomach. Disgusting
That's me (on the left). Only 364 days, 23 hours, 3 mintues, and 32.8 seconds left until the next contest.
