NJ Man Wins Annual Wing Eating Contest

Associated Press ... direct feed | January 24, 2003

[NYer]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Cheered by thong-wearing ``Wingettes'' and about 20,000 spectators, two dozen beefy, costume-wearing competitors gobbled and slurped up plates of chicken wings in sports talk radio station WIP's 11th ``Wing Bowl.''

Perennial winner Bill ``El Wingador'' Simmons, 41, of National Park, N.J., outgorged other favorites including Larry ``Buzzsaw'' Shaitelman, 32, Chris ``Beefeater'' Coyne, 33, and Doug ``Damaging Doug'' Canavin, 31, in the annual competition to see who can keep down the most wings. Simmons ate 154 wings for the victory at the Spectrum.

The event began in 1993 when the station conceived the idea of a chicken-wing eating contest on the Friday before the Super Bowl in honor of the Buffalo Bills, who had been to the Super Bowl several times without ever winning.

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[NYer]

Bill "El Wingador" Simmons - Winner and Still Champ!!

[wideawake]

Who judges whether a wing has been legitimately consumed or not?

[dirtboy]

Simmons ate 154 wings for the victory at the Spectrum.

Someone give that man one ... thin ... mint...

[wideawake]

Just a waff-er thin chocolate mint?

[JoeSixPack1]

154 wings!! Beats my all time high of 83 to shame!


but were they Niagara Flaming Falls wings or just everyday hot wings? This is important stuff!!!

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[EdReform]

BTTT

[Guillermo]

Nothing will ever beat the 50+ hot dogs that Japanese fellow gobbled down in 12 minutes.

I mean, second place was 25...

[rooster1]

Does PETA know about this?

[JoeSixPack1]

And if I remember right he was half everybody else's size.

But they said he was using the ancient deadly chinese art of kung foo-d. :-)

[amused]

Yikes...that's alot of wings...I once saw 2 buddies who play football split 150 wings and then they ate a whole cherry cheesecake.

But I have to say...what is the deal with the superhero tights and cape?

[WARF]

Heard great time over cell phone!!!

[Guillermo]

LOL!

I saw a program on "professional eating" and it was very interesting.

They pretty much proved scientifically that a thin person could do better than a fat person. Essentially their stomach has more room to expand than does a fatso, or something to that effect.

[Wolfie]

"How do you feel, sir?"

"Better."

"Better, sir?"

"Better get a bucket."

[Duke809]

Former MLB umpire Eric Gregg, who is the "commisioner" of Wing Bowl. He has two assistants who help him, but he has final say.

They are pretty stringent about what constitutes a clean wing.

Wing Bowl has one other rule. "You Heave, You Leave". Last year, a guy named Coondog O'Karma from Ohio was leading by two wings going into the home stretch. Then he lost it and El Wingador just kept on going. Coondog holds the record for dounts. I think its 25 in 3 and a half minutes, but I'm not sure.

This year Coondog O'Karma wasn't even in the top 5.

[jiggyboy]

We have a place in Santa Clara that has a jumbo cartoon thermometer on the wall with seven or eight levels for you to order wings. Separate from that is "The 911 Challenge" -- the "sauce" is basically pure capscium extract. You have to sigh a waiver before ordering them, and right above your signature you must additionally initial a box next to the text "I am an idiot."

[Phantom Lord]

I world record prior to that event was 25 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes. He broke the world record in under 5 minutes!

His name is Takeru Kobayashi. And heres a pic.

[TroutStalker]

[Phantom Lord]

IFOCE Records

Check out some of them eating records.

[Phantom Lord]

Kobayashi also holds the record for Cow Brains! 57 (17.7 pounds) in 15 minutes