I Just Came up With my Competitive Eating Alias

(photo courtesy of this flickr page)
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter

After seeing Dario Franchitti win Indy yesterday, I felt inspired.

Inspired to call myself Dario FrankEatty if I ever compete in the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Competition at Coney Island on July 4th, that is.









That's how I roll.

Suggestion to Improve the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com

The pregame introductions at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest are the best introductions in sports- whimsical, entertaining, and mildly educational. The antithesis of this is the introductions at professional soccer matches, especially in Europe, where the players walk out holding hands with children, then exchange flags, and a bunch of other pomp and circumstance that reminds me of the introductions on Iron Chef.

Soccer just needs to abandon all that foolywang, but I think the hot dog eating competition intros would be even funnier if they came holding holding hands with random Coney Island kids during the introductions as seen below.