Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for July 27, 2024

Heck, looks like he’s in training for it.

I missed the coverage, how do you get accused of cheating in a hot dog eating contest… Or maybe there wasn’t one and it was just invented for this strip.

There was the ethics controversy Joey Chestnut was not allowed in Nathan’s contest because he’d signed an endorsement for a competing brand of hot dogs.

What a coincidence. They were talking about hotdog eating contests in Cleats last week.

Nathan Hot Dogs are very good , by the way : ) With mustard of course : )

What constitutes a sport seems to fall under the heading of “I know it when I see it.”

The competitive eating world has been rocked by hard-to-swallow claims that a contender in this year’s Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest cheated to beef up his score.

Nick Wehry — husband of women’s division champion Miki Sudo — is being accused of using sleight of hand trickery during the July Fourth contest in order to inflate his tally of eaten hot dogs and falsely place himself among the sport’s elite contenders, according to two sources closely involved in the competition.

Some of the stuff going on in the Olympics that are called sport! Of course, let’s not include baseball…

Amazing, I’m stuck thinking of ways to cheat at hot dog eating.

I don’t consider break dancing to be a sport either.

If you can bet on the outcome is it usually considered a sport.

I detest competitive eating.

I like mustard, Ketchup and salsa on mine.

I’ve never considered competitive gluttony a sport, either.

Was it DEE?!

You’re allowed to soak the hot dogs in water to make the buns easier to chew

Well at least it has an objective criteria for winning. Break dancing in the Olympics? Please, not a sport.

IMHO, if the final outcome is determined by “judges interpretation” it’s not a sport. Gymnastics, skateboarding (unless they’re racing), diving, etc.. are not sports very athletic but not a sport.