competitive eating: sport or not?

 

sport: endurance, requires strength, competitive

not: its just stuffing your face

 

discuss

 

 

 

tomorrow: cheerleading

ill tell ya right now what my stance on sports is. I dont think track and swimming are sports. I think they athletic events.

anyone who can eat 50 hotdogs in an hour and weighs 150 lbs is quite an athelete in my book! :lol

Eating contests are definetly sports. That guy who ate 50 hotdogs in an hour is my hero.

I was thinking of this today at work mainly because I thought my reply in the other thread was very rude. A sport is sport when its purpose is to be compete against another. Thus eating, hunting or spelling are not sports but board games and cheerleading (school pride is at risk) are.

I competed in my share of eating contests and won a lot of them(mainly pie eating contests, mmm Pie).

 

Not a sport though, I just did it because it was something cool to do.

Nah, fishin's more a sport than stuffin your face with food.

Are you kidding me?

 

This is nowhere near a sport.

 

You sit your ass down and stuff your face.

 

I do that everyday but am I an athlete?

 

Nope.

No. It shouldn't be considered as a sport.

No, but it's fun as hell! :thumbup

not a sport, cmon eating a lot may require some athleticism, but so does hunting/fishing, and we said yesterday that neither is a sport

no way

 

not everything competitive is a sport

 

are these guys athletes? nope

If you don't break some sort of sweat, it isn't a sport. :thumbdown

If you don't break some sort of sweat, it isn't a sport. :thumbdown

if you ate 50 hot dogs in 12 minutes, youd sweat