For those that don't know, National Corndog Day is a celebration of basketball, the corn dog, tater tots, and cheap American beer that occurs in March of every year on the first Saturday of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. My friend hosts a party sponsored by the good folks at Foster Farms, who sends her boxes upon boxes of corndogs for free. There is even a competition in which people attempt to accomplish a "triple-double" -- eat 10 corn dogs, drink ten cans of beer, and eat 10 servings of tater tots (1 serving = 10 tots) -- before the last basketball game ends. My group of friends have become extremely competitive to the point where we have scoreboards where people can keep track of how much they are eating. I don't like tater tots so I attempted the "double-double". Unfortunately, by corndog number nine my body just shut down and said no more. I finished the 10 beers easily. My friend sent the following e-mail which I thought I'd share. It's freaking hilarious that she sent out an official scorecard with everyone's tallies. She even posted videos on youtube of two of the three people who completed the triple-double. I will admit the amount of gluttony on display is quite disturbing.
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Corndoggers-
Wow. Words cannot describe the success of this year's NCD Brooklyn bash, but numbers can. Let us first just say, congratulations to all.
The big story came late in the evening when those who stuck around until the final buzzer witnessed history: THREE triple doubles. Only twice in our seven-year NCD history had the triple double been achieved. This was big.
Leif posted first at 9:30pm with the "slow and steady wins the race" approach: one dog, tot serving and beer per hour. When asked how he felt about his accomplishment, he said, "I feel disgusting. That was awesome." Leif declared he's hanging up his gloves and says he looks forward to sitting back next year and offering nuggets of wisdom to the next aspirant.
Joel posted second at 10pm in a fevered finish. Nearly half his triple double – 3 beers, 5 dogs and 4 tot servings – was consumed in under two hours. "I can see the light," he said at 8pm, and then just started eating…rapidly. Amazingly, after being crowned, and in an unintentional moment of hubris, he cracked open, and drank, a PBR tall boy.
Michael Ward made it across the finish line at 10:45pm with some crowd encouragement – Ben and Liz reheated his last six tots in the toaster oven and scraped off excess ketchup – but not before shouting, "If I'm going down, you're all coming with me!" And then he drooled into his cup, just to make everyone else feel kinda sick too.
Congratulations guys on a fine, fine performance. Here are the rest of the breakdowns (stats reported as dogs/beers/tots):
Totals
Registered athletes: 66
Corndogs: 235 (up 17% from last year)*
Beers: 268 (up 32% from last year)
Tots: 159 (up .6% from last year)
Men's Division
For the second year in a row, Joel came away with the overall title. Because of the triple doubles, not too many surprises her, just lots of ties. Will showed why it's tough to compete if you don't stick around until the bitter end: at 11pm, after the competition left, he downed beer #14, because, he said, "O'Connor can't have the title to himself."
Overall: Joel - 33 points (10/13/10)
Dogs: Leif (10/10/10), Joel (10/13/10), Michael W. (10/11/10), Steve H. (10/10/5)
Tots: Leif (10/10/10), Joel (10/13/10), Michael O'Loughlin (7/10/10), Michael W. (10/11/10)
Beers: Will (5/14/3), Mike O'Connor (5/14/2)
Women's Division
Jenny rode the vegetarian wave to victory and even made a grocery run at 7:30pm to replenish the dipping supply of vegetarian dogs. Sue Craine defended her tot title for the fourth year running! Overall, the ladies bested the guys in decisiveness. "We laugh at your four way tie for tots," one female contender said. Sabrica – dog and beer champ and petite enough to fit in our dryer – again proved size doesn't matter.
Overall: Jenny K. - 21 points (6/9/6)
Dogs: Sabrica (8/10/0)
Tots: Sue C. (2/3/10)
Beers: Sabrica (8/10/0)
Honorable Mentions go out to: Kelvin who, in just three and a half hours, consumed 8 dogs, 5 beers and 6 tot servings!; Michael O'Loughlin and Steve H. who came away with double doubles; and first-timer Sarah (5/8/6) who arrived late but posted an impressive 19 points!
As for the rest of the parties around the country, it looks like our only competition was Alexandria, VA, who claimed to have eaten 253 corndogs, 27 pounds of tater tots and an unknown amount of beer. All we have to say is, what kind of scorekeeping is that? Show us your corndog sticks, Alexandria! For all the official run-downs visit the official site.
Thanks everyone for making this is a Corndog Day to remember. Stay "fit" in the coming year – it's on to 2009!
* For those who were there, you may remember our last party in 2006 featured quarter pound "jumbo dogs." While we only consumed 129 of those dogs, the calorie equivalent to 2008 dogs was 201, which is the more accurate number to compare consumption between years.
Edit: to fix broken link
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Corndoggers-
Wow. Words cannot describe the success of this year's NCD Brooklyn bash, but numbers can. Let us first just say, congratulations to all.
The big story came late in the evening when those who stuck around until the final buzzer witnessed history: THREE triple doubles. Only twice in our seven-year NCD history had the triple double been achieved. This was big.
Leif posted first at 9:30pm with the "slow and steady wins the race" approach: one dog, tot serving and beer per hour. When asked how he felt about his accomplishment, he said, "I feel disgusting. That was awesome." Leif declared he's hanging up his gloves and says he looks forward to sitting back next year and offering nuggets of wisdom to the next aspirant.
Joel posted second at 10pm in a fevered finish. Nearly half his triple double – 3 beers, 5 dogs and 4 tot servings – was consumed in under two hours. "I can see the light," he said at 8pm, and then just started eating…rapidly. Amazingly, after being crowned, and in an unintentional moment of hubris, he cracked open, and drank, a PBR tall boy.
Michael Ward made it across the finish line at 10:45pm with some crowd encouragement – Ben and Liz reheated his last six tots in the toaster oven and scraped off excess ketchup – but not before shouting, "If I'm going down, you're all coming with me!" And then he drooled into his cup, just to make everyone else feel kinda sick too.
Congratulations guys on a fine, fine performance. Here are the rest of the breakdowns (stats reported as dogs/beers/tots):
Totals
Registered athletes: 66
Corndogs: 235 (up 17% from last year)*
Beers: 268 (up 32% from last year)
Tots: 159 (up .6% from last year)
Men's Division
For the second year in a row, Joel came away with the overall title. Because of the triple doubles, not too many surprises her, just lots of ties. Will showed why it's tough to compete if you don't stick around until the bitter end: at 11pm, after the competition left, he downed beer #14, because, he said, "O'Connor can't have the title to himself."
Overall: Joel - 33 points (10/13/10)
Dogs: Leif (10/10/10), Joel (10/13/10), Michael W. (10/11/10), Steve H. (10/10/5)
Tots: Leif (10/10/10), Joel (10/13/10), Michael O'Loughlin (7/10/10), Michael W. (10/11/10)
Beers: Will (5/14/3), Mike O'Connor (5/14/2)
Women's Division
Jenny rode the vegetarian wave to victory and even made a grocery run at 7:30pm to replenish the dipping supply of vegetarian dogs. Sue Craine defended her tot title for the fourth year running! Overall, the ladies bested the guys in decisiveness. "We laugh at your four way tie for tots," one female contender said. Sabrica – dog and beer champ and petite enough to fit in our dryer – again proved size doesn't matter.
Overall: Jenny K. - 21 points (6/9/6)
Dogs: Sabrica (8/10/0)
Tots: Sue C. (2/3/10)
Beers: Sabrica (8/10/0)
Honorable Mentions go out to: Kelvin who, in just three and a half hours, consumed 8 dogs, 5 beers and 6 tot servings!; Michael O'Loughlin and Steve H. who came away with double doubles; and first-timer Sarah (5/8/6) who arrived late but posted an impressive 19 points!
As for the rest of the parties around the country, it looks like our only competition was Alexandria, VA, who claimed to have eaten 253 corndogs, 27 pounds of tater tots and an unknown amount of beer. All we have to say is, what kind of scorekeeping is that? Show us your corndog sticks, Alexandria! For all the official run-downs visit the official site.
Thanks everyone for making this is a Corndog Day to remember. Stay "fit" in the coming year – it's on to 2009!
* For those who were there, you may remember our last party in 2006 featured quarter pound "jumbo dogs." While we only consumed 129 of those dogs, the calorie equivalent to 2008 dogs was 201, which is the more accurate number to compare consumption between years.
Edit: to fix broken link
