Peter King Rages Against Hot Dog Eating Contests, Calls It 'Gluttonous' & A 'Sin' (TWEETS)

Peter King Rages Against Hot Dog Eating Contests, Calls It ‘Gluttonous’ & A ‘Sin’ (TWEETS)

July 5, 2020, 8:03pm EST (Updated: March 10, 2022, 10:59am)By Darrelle Lincoln

On Independence Day, Joey Chestnut still reigned supreme when it comes to the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog-Eating Contest.

The 36-year-old scarfed down a world record 75 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes on Saturday to win the Mustard Yellow Belt for the 13th time in 14 years.

Although no fans could attend, people still watched it on TV and enjoyed it as usual. Well, not everybody.

Longtime NFL writer Peter King began trending on Twitter the following day after he took issue with the event.

King, one of the most-respected football reporters in the country, went as far to say that competitive eating is a “sin.”

“Never have. Never will. Not the point,” King said in response to someone telling him to just not watch it. “The fact is, ESPN celebrates the birthday of our country by airing a gluttonous, vomitous and grotesque event. Eating is not a sport. Competitive eating is a sin.”

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What he said. https://t.co/JjfOlmuNnB
— Peter King (@peter_king) July 5, 2020

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Never have. Never will.
Not the point.
The fact is, ESPN celebrates the birthday of our country by airing a gluttonous, vomitous and grotesque event.
Eating is not a sport. Competitive eating is a sin. https://t.co/PevTsgjXju
— Peter King (@peter_king) July 5, 2020

Social media, of course, ripped him a new one:

Peter you are fat and grotesque and they’ve been putting you on tv for 4 decades and nobody complained. https://t.co/bL6Nn8vLnw
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) July 5, 2020

By any metric football is more entertaining than competitive eating. For me. But let's not act like football is some safer, more saintly option. Just more ingrained. Also, "our country" isn't accurate. Only a certain segment of the population was "free" on July 4, 1776. https://t.co/GgvvS9YvjT
— Justin Tinsley (@JustinTinsley) July 5, 2020

I miss the days before twitter when I didn’t know how many sports writers are just bitter miserable people https://t.co/K5p30LQMdB
— Will Applebee (@NOTSCWill) July 5, 2020

I love me some sins then! https://t.co/xNY4YDYx56
— Sean Pendergast (@SeanTPendergast) July 5, 2020

So you got those man titties by not being gluttonous https://t.co/wqZZYdbKsK pic.twitter.com/btntyOQYJN
— Greg (@g_walk79) July 5, 2020

Competitive eating is a sin but you cover a sport where people bash their heads in repeatedly and end up with CTE. https://t.co/zURBzW240i
— gifdsports (@gifdsports) July 5, 2020

Respectfully Mr. King:
1. The sport you cover, football, has caused infinitely more damage to its participants than competing eating
2. It is a free market. If content not valuable it wouldn’t be aired
3. Gluttony, albeit disgusting & personally repulsive to you is not illegal https://t.co/G2HD0aurN2
— ??????? ???? (@exavierpope) July 5, 2020

“It was hard,” said Chestnut, who consumed roughly 21,750 calories. “I knew I was fast in the beginning. It was like blistering speed. And the dogs were cooked really well today. Minute six is where I really missed the crowd … and I hit a wall, and it took me a little bit more work to get through it. This is a crazy year, and I’m happy I was able to get a record.”

The last time Chestnut lost this competition was in 2015 to Matt Stonie, who wasn’t able to compete this year because of travel restrictions.