Wasn’t there some official case where someone’s cause of death was that they asphyxiated themselves by farting while asleep in bed?

Golfers and baseball players work on their swing, other athletes stretch arms, legs, adapt their diet, etc. depending on what the sport or competition requires for success.

These guys (and they are mostly guys, right?) train their stomachs to be No. 1.

I don’t think we’ll be seeing competitive eating high school teams or college scholarships any time soon, however. And Michelle O. surely wouldn’t approve 🙂

The rule: If you can smoke a cigar and drink a cocktail while competing, it is not a sport. Sports require athletic ability.

Golf, Bowling, Checkers and Dominoes to name just a few are competitions not sport.

Since the eating contestants were drinking water they could have easily grabbed a puff between Wieners.

As a sidebar/exception. Major Leaguer John Kruk was at spring training years ago. He was swinging a bat with a lit cigarette in his mouth near the spectators. An elderly lady told him that athletes shouldn’t smoke.

Kruk looked at her and said, “I’m not an athlete mam, I’m a baseball player.

It’s rare to find a country that can put eating contests as a some kind of mass popular thing for the peasants. Other countries place a higher value on food and quantity, thus such occasions might be more special. And rarer.

But it was awfully good.