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Here's some terrible, self righteous garbage from Peter King about the Nathan's hot dog contest:quote:"Joey Chestnut Wins Hot-Dog Eating Contest." Whoever at ESPN thought of televising the Fourth of July contest from Coney Island and giving it some form of sporting glory ought to not only be fired but also sent to a class for education on world hunger. Here's a stat for you, according to world hunger organization Bread For The World: One in seven people on earth suffer from severe hunger daily. That's 963 MILLION people. The ratings suggest we are all guilty of promoting this grotesque custom. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves for giving ESPN reason for showing this. You get paid millions of dollars to write lovely articles about millionaires playing a game designed to make billionaires money; a game fueled by a 24/7 media machine bombarding us with million dollar ad campaigns for luxury products that we don't need. But some random guys off the street eating hot dogs for a fun contest once a year, now that's a grotesque display of extravagant excess! We'll probably never know how many poor African children died because we stole their hot dogs and shoved them down Joey Chestnut's gullet.
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Incredible. In a brief article he manages to make abysmally wrong judgement calls about the sport he covers, name drop Brett Favre, complain about his free trips to the Super Bowl, AND give his unwelcome opinion about an unrelated current event. It's like someone carefully crafted a Peter King time capsule for us to discover 12 years later.
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