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ESPN Eating Competition

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ESPN, "The Worldwide Leader in Sports", broadcast some kind of national eating contest Thursday night. Paul Page, who used to do the Indy 500 every year, has been reduced to PxP of fat guys stuffing their faces.

The mostaciolli competition was the worst. Guys shoving it with both hands. The hot dog thing was bad enough, but at least there's some history to it.

Anyone else see this? Opinions?
 
> ESPN, "The Worldwide Leader in Sports", broadcast some kind
> of national eating contest Thursday night. Paul Page, who
> used to do the Indy 500 every year, has been reduced to PxP
> of fat guys stuffing their faces.
>
> The mostaciolli competition was the worst. Guys shoving it
> with both hands. The hot dog thing was bad enough, but at
> least there's some history to it.
>
> Anyone else see this? Opinions?

You bet I did when I went to ESPN on my cable channel to put in a DVD. Is ESPN running out of shows to run?? Baseball not doing well?? So they run a hot dog eating contest which is nearly as disgusting and unfunny as reruns of Fear Factor showing people getting stung by scorpions and people eating worms.

I guess ESPN is starting to get more and more gory with their shows. Guess the next thing will be even more gorier shows than hot dog and hamburger eating contests. So ESPN will not be much more than a reality based network that will show more reality shows than sports.
 
I saw a little of it when it reaired late last night. Anyone here ever heard of "binging and purging"? That's basically what you have here - at the professional level. They wolf it down and then spend the next half hour - well, you know. It's not healthy if you're anorexic, and it certainly can't be good for the professional masticator either.

And the really strange part: the title sponsor was Alka-Seltzer. Plop plop, fizz fizz, yet.

While we're on the subject: I haven't seen any stateside coverage at all of the World Aquatics Championships the last two weeks. They're in Montreal. The CBC is covering them up north - two to three hours a night in primetime, plus featured weekend coverage. What gives? Not important enough around here?

I guess America's taste in sports is leaning toward stuff that would make "Oddball" on MSNBC.
 
> I guess America's taste in sports is leaning toward stuff
> that would make "Oddball" on MSNBC.

Yes,where log running,hot dog eating,hamburger eating contests are more important to ESPN than baseball and football,then that's drawing the line here. Guess the next thing will be people outrunning sharks and other more gorier things a la Fear Factor.

I have an acronym of what ESPN will became: Eternally Stupid People Network
 
> > I guess America's taste in sports is leaning toward stuff
> > that would make "Oddball" on MSNBC.
>
> Yes,where log running,hot dog eating,hamburger eating
> contests are more important to ESPN than baseball and
> football,then that's drawing the line here. Guess the next
> thing will be people outrunning sharks and other more gorier
> things a la Fear Factor.
>
> I have an acronym of what ESPN will became: Eternally
> Stupid People Network
>

And how badly must Paul Page need work?
 
> > ESPN, "The Worldwide Leader in Sports", broadcast some
> kind
> > of national eating contest Thursday night. Paul Page, who
>
> > used to do the Indy 500 every year, has been reduced to
> PxP
> > of fat guys stuffing their faces.
> >
> > The mostaciolli competition was the worst. Guys shoving
> it
> > with both hands. The hot dog thing was bad enough, but at
>
> > least there's some history to it.
> >
> > Anyone else see this? Opinions?
>
> You bet I did when I went to ESPN on my cable channel to put
> in a DVD. Is ESPN running out of shows to run?? Baseball not
> doing well?? So they run a hot dog eating contest which is
> nearly as disgusting and unfunny as reruns of Fear Factor
> showing people getting stung by scorpions and people eating
> worms.
>
> I guess ESPN is starting to get more and more gory with
> their shows. Guess the next thing will be even more gorier
> shows than hot dog and hamburger eating contests. So ESPN
> will not be much more than a reality based network that will
> show more reality shows than sports.
>

Oh, they'll keep running the legit sports.....on ESPN6000 or some other new
channel that people will have to pay $20 extra a month to upgrade to.

They're just following the lead of MTV, VH1 and TV Land in that regard..you
plebians who don't want to give most of your disposable income to your cable/dish provider will watch lowest-common-denominator programming and like it!
 
> > > I guess America's taste in sports is leaning toward
> stuff
> > > that would make "Oddball" on MSNBC.
> >
> > Yes,where log running,hot dog eating,hamburger eating
> > contests are more important to ESPN than baseball and
> > football,then that's drawing the line here. Guess the next
>
> > thing will be people outrunning sharks and other more
> gorier
> > things a la Fear Factor.
> >
> > I have an acronym of what ESPN will became: Eternally
> > Stupid People Network
> >
>
> And how badly must Paul Page need work?
>

If anyone saw the movie "Dodgeball" they televised the National Dodgeball Competition on a fictional ESPN 8 "The Ocho", kinda like how ESPN 2 is called "The Deuce". I don't think we're too far behind from having an ESPN 8 becuase ESPN doesn't want much to do with the NHL yet they show these ridiculous eating contests and if it isn't bad enough the HDTV network INHD is going to show eating competitions in high definition. That has got to be exciting seeing vomit or as they call it the "Reversal of Fortune" at 1080i!!! Ewwwwwwwwwwwww!!
 
>
> If anyone saw the movie "Dodgeball" they televised the
> National Dodgeball Competition on a fictional ESPN 8 "The
> Ocho", kinda like how ESPN 2 is called "The Deuce". I don't
> think we're too far behind from having an ESPN 8 becuase
> ESPN doesn't want much to do with the NHL yet they show
> these ridiculous eating contests and if it isn't bad enough
> the HDTV network INHD is going to show eating competitions
> in high definition. That has got to be exciting seeing vomit
> or as they call it the "Reversal of Fortune" at 1080i!!!
> Ewwwwwwwwwwwww!!
>

Eating contest's overnights tripled the average NHL game rating. Sick? Yes. But you can't ignore that.
 
Uh guys...lets not forget the ORIGINAL concept of ESPN....

E=ENTERTAINMENT
S=SPORTS
P=PROGRAMMING
N=NETWORK
 
I think ESPN has really been reaching for "Sporting Events" the last few years. They have tried showing made for television movies, that with the exception of "The Junction Boys", have been fairly bad and innacurate. They have tried dramatic series such as "Play Makers" and "Tilt". Lately, they have shown Poker and Black Jack tournaments, which I do not nor cannot understand the appeal of either "Sporting Event". The Eating Championships is just another psuedo sporting event that ESPN is trying to cram down the throats of the American sports viewer.
 
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