That's right, I am the 2009 Champion. This past weekend I beat the other 5 people who were competing to be the fastest wing eater from the South Bay Run Team of Team in Training. This was a fundraiser for the team, with each contestant asking for pledges per wing. I wasn't going to do this fundraiser but I decided since I was a little behind in my fundraising that I would just go for it. I received pledges from 10 people totaling $11 per wing. I was hoping to manage to eat 20 wings in the 1o minute time limit, after doing some research on the web. I also figured that if I could eat 3 pieces of pizza and 4 wings for dinner that I could probably manage to eat at least 20 wings.
The Community Captain for the team, Brian (the Killer Bee) put me in the competitive heat. He told me that his goal was to eat 1 more wing than I could. I had done some research as well about the best method for eating wings quickly. There are several nice videos from Cluckbucket that detail different methods. I decided to go for "The Grenade" technique, minus tossing the wing after pulling the pin. This method served me well as I was able to eat 29 wings in 10 minutes. Really, I blew away the competition as the 2nd and 3rd place winners both had 25 wings.
As you can see, it wasn't pretty. But I was focused. People were cheering us all on, taunting the two guys who were on either side of me... I just kept shoving that chicken in my mouth, trying to swallow and drinking a sip of water from time to time. It was insane. I was pretty happy when the 10 minutes were up. I wasn't quite full yet but I knew that I would be stuffed once my stomach realized how much food I had stuffed in it.The amazing part is that we raised over $2,000 for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society in pledges alone! Smoke Eaters, the wing establishment where this fundraiser took place, also said that they would donate 15% of all receipts during the fundraiser to LLS. It's amazing what we can do in just a few short hours if we try!
If you would like to donate to LLS, please click on the link to go to my LLS homepage. Your money will go to fund research that is making a difference to those who suffer from blood cancer.
And if you want to know when I'll be eating wings again...I'm going to say, maybe in a few weeks.
Go Team!
