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Op-Docs: ‘El Wingador’
Wing Bowl 20 was this morning! Takeru Kobayashi won, setting an all-time record by eating 337 wings. (“In order to prepare for the event Kobayashi reportedly ate 200 wings per day in the days leading up to the event. He also ‘Tebow’d’ (sic) prior to the event.”)
Much more coverage via Philadelphia sports radio station 94WIP here; for some context on this whole thing, Jason Fagone’s hilarious book “Horsemen of the Esophagus” is highly recommended.
To commemorate this great day, Errol Morris did a ten-minute documentary for the New York Times on Philly icon Bill “El Wingador” Simmons.
Simmons: “I started to eat my German shepherd’s rawhide bones…I ate a five-pound bag of rawhide a month prior to the competition just to strengthen my jaws.”
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