Caption time!

espn.com ^ | July 5, 2002 | Me

[baseballfanjm]

Caption this picture of National hot dog eating champ Takeru Kobayashi destroying the competition.

[Timesink]

"Whoever pukes last has to date Chelsea!"

[funkywbr]

DONT EVER show me a picture of Chelsea while I'm eating.

[Shryke]

"And that's the end of the local news. Now, we move on to our International News, today's discussion: the international food shortage: fact or fiction. Reporting live from the front, our man in the field, Takeru."

[Fedupwithit]

a hot dog eating contest, huh?

That's an awful lot of lips and a$$holes!

[Gaston]

And the weiner is............

[Paul Atreides]

Takeru Kobayashi: "I AM GODZILLA!!!!"

[alisasny]

Your bad!!!

[Andyman]

"Godzirra"

[hgro]

This guy is full of baloney!

[cilbupeR_eerF]

contestant #3 says to himself..."uh oh, what am i going to do now?", as that unstoppable urge to take a dump overcomes him.

[Grim]

Their heartthrob is Takeru Kobayashi, a svelte-looking professional competitive eater from Japan who won his second consecutive Nathan's Famous international hot dog eating contest and the coveted Mustard Yellow Championship belt on Thursday afternoon. In the process, he surpassed his incredible record of 50 hot dogs and buns -- set last year -- by a half a wiener, and made his nearest competitor, Eric "Badlands" Booker, who only ate 26 hot dogs and buns, look like an anorectic.

Last year, when Kobayashi doubled the previous record held by countryman and three-time champ Kazutoyo Arai, the event's promoters had to scribble along with each hot dog he ate, since they only made numbers -- which are flashed to the crowd -- through 30. This year, finally realizing that they were dealing with one of the most dominant athletes of all time, the numbers went into the high 60s.

"I myself compared him to Tiger Woods last year," said Rich Shea, president of the International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE), which sanctions 50 events each year. "I've often heard people say he's the Michael Jordan of eating. But I think to associate Michael Jordan with Kobayashi is a slight against Kobayashi ... if you look at the margins with which this guy wins."

In the first three minutes of this year's competition, Kobayashi ate 18 hot dogs. A minute and half later, he was beating Booker by 18. A little more than five minutes in, he beat Booker's U.S. record of 28, freshly established a month ago. He then proceeded to eat 3.3 hot dogs a minute for the final six minutes, a pace that no competitor could keep up with after the first three minutes of eating.

A professional competative eater? Is this a great country or what?

[mhking]

UUUULLLLPPPPP!!!!

[rudypoot]

yep, I usually wear wristbands whenever I have to eat really fast. hehe

[Consort]

[RetiredArmy]

Black dude: "I think I'm gonna hurl!!!"

[Calvin Locke]

Caught the last part on Fox. The winner did start to lose it 2 seconds after the bell. Not anywhere near
Stephen King's recitation of Lard @ss and the blueberry pies, but Fox did cut away...

[Husker24]

"all your hotdog belong to us"

[baseballfanjm]

This guy is 140 pounds. You wonder where he holds it all. I myself can max out at maybe 6 dogs and that's only if I'm starving to death.