If you want to watch Takeru Kobayashi regurgitate at yesterday's Hot Dog Eating Contest, you'd better watch it here:
Because you won't see it on ESPN.
On ESPN Radio this morning, Doug Gottlieb said management at the Worldwide Leader has ordered the staff not to show replays of Kobayashi throwing up at the end of the competition.
"There was an edict last night to stop showing the regurgitation," said Gottlieb, filling in for Mike Greenberg on Mike and Mike in the Morning.
Co-host Mike Golic asked, "We can't show that?" and Gottlieb replied, "We can't show the puke."
Golic said, "I've got an issue with that." So do I. Vomiting is a part of competitive eating just as concussions are a part of football, and ESPN shouldn't sugarcoat the truth.
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ESPN Bans Kobayashi Puke
Posted Jul 5th 2007 9:12AM by Michael David Smith
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-05-2007 @ 9:28AM
andyi said...
Who cares? So they're not showing the puke. Comparing that to concussions in the NFL is ridiculous and inaccurate. It's not sugarcoating anything. Puking isn't hazardous to his health, concussions are. Besides, ESPN's owned by Disney, what do you expect? I honestly can't believe that you compared his puking to concussions. Unbelievable.
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7-05-2007 @ 9:44AM
Unsilent Majority said...
andyi- you're a moron and suicide is painless
did they also put the kibosh on McNabb's reversals of fortune?
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7-05-2007 @ 10:18AM
andyi said...
Who cares? So they're not showing the puke. Comparing that to concussions in the NFL is ridiculous and inaccurate. It's not sugarcoating anything. Puking isn't hazardous to his health, concussions are. Besides, ESPN's owned by Disney, what do you expect? I honestly can't believe that you compared his puking to concussions. Unbelievable.
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7-05-2007 @ 10:32AM
Sandy said...
They showed the highlights yesterday while I was sitting down eating watermelon.
Sorry, the last thing I thought I'd see on ESPN was puking. I'm glad they are going to quit showing it.
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7-05-2007 @ 11:27AM
sid said...
Don’t want to sugarcoat the truth? How about if in between the puking sessions on ESPN they show commercials of kids in underdeveloped countries so malnourished that they’re brain damaged? They could use the Disney theme song “It’s a Small World.”
Competitive eating isn’t a sport. It’s an affront to humanity.
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7-05-2007 @ 11:39AM
Dennis said...
They managed to show plenty of bloody dog fighting scenes so some vomit shouldn't be a be deal.
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7-05-2007 @ 12:07PM
cathy said...
So ESPN is not showing the Puke. Well...my local news did right at Breakfast...YUCK!!!!!
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7-05-2007 @ 2:50PM
bdnb said...
Hey Sid,
Kobayashi donates $250,000 to hunger relief in the Sudan after every championship he's got. That's about $240,000 more than the cost of the hotdogs that these contestants ate. Also, the eating federation donates about 90 percent of the proceeds it makes that day to the same cause. Stop being an idiot.
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7-05-2007 @ 3:54PM
fffghhhjjfd said...
Sid your comment is a joke.
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7-05-2007 @ 5:38PM
paygan247 said...
You know, this is probably the best victory over Japan since WWII. They have basically handed our auto industry its balls-with gasp* cars that save you money on gas.
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7-06-2007 @ 2:26AM
inlandvalleywild said...
When it comes to sports like this one, we all know the Japanese are choke artists, literally.
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7-06-2007 @ 2:31AM
nelson2008kane said...
Football is a joke: steroids and cocaine-use are basically tolerated by the NFL Player's Association, knee-injuries cripple players for the rest of their lives, and now evidence that head-to-head-butting can lead to early depepression, Alzheimer's, and suicide. No one should call Competitive eating a joke, unless they're going to throw in boxing and bicycling also.
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7-06-2007 @ 2:35AM
nelson2008kane said...
Can you imagine throwing up 63 hot dogs? And then continuing to do that for a living???
OUTSTANDING!!!!!
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