Almost coughed up my mahi mahi when I returned from vacation Wednesday night, turned on the plasma and watched a replay of Joey Chestnut's dog-eat-dog day. "This would be the greatest moment in the history of American sports if Chestnut could bring the belt home to Coney Island!" shouted ESPN's announcer.
First off, you shouldn't need a belt for your pants if you can scarf 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes. Second, if this was the "greatest moment" in our country's sports almanac, the judging sure has changed in the blink of a Maui sunset. So forget about the 1980 U.
S. hockey team's "Miracle on Ice," Secretariat's 1973 triple crown and the feats of Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Mark Spitz, Jackie Robinson, Kirk Gibson, Cassius Clay and Joe Montana-to-Dwight Clark. It's time to re-examine our past and find those great sports moments that redefine "We the People": Chestnut's upset over reigning champ Takeru Kobayashi is such a great dog fight, it should have been staged at Michael Vick's place instead of Coney Island.
We the People: Love feasting on fatty foods at sporting events, and we don't know when to say when. Brandi Chastain strips off her U.S.
jersey and celebrates in a sports bra after winning the 1999 Women's World Cup final. We the People: Wear underwear in case photographers are nearby (a lesson lost on Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan). Rocky Balboa knocks out Ivan Drago, a steroids-fueled Russian, in the 15th and final round of their Almost coughed up my mahi mahi when I returned from vacation Wednesday night, turned on the plasma and watched a replay of Joey Chestnut's dog-eat-dog day.
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