I'm on a boat

So quite possibly the most anticipated eating contest we've ever competed in occurred in Saratoga, NY this last weekend. Simma and I joked that we could eat so much more with an herbal supplement but I thought better of it then to try to bring it on the plane to NY. Right after we go through airport security Simma makes it known to me that he has lots of pockets and it's a good thing he's a little white boy. Simma having his priorities in order then proceeds to call in sick from the phili airport at 8:30 in the morning and makes sure his boss knows that if he feels better he'll be in that afternoon.

Skip to that afternoon, we're all starving and forcing ourselves not to eat in order to compete against JRoll's dad & uncles in an eating contest. They outweigh us by 300 lbs easily and the largest guy, Captain Dave, is literally two of me. In order to set the hunger aside, we go tubing on JRoll's boat and the water was like glass, so it was a blast.

So without going too much into the rules... we had a commissioner, 2 score keepers, t-shirts, and a whole restaurant watching us eat foot long battered + fried fish filets in hot dog buns. These suckers came steaming hot and the first couple actually tasted pretty damn good. We were cruising after 2 each, 3 each we started to feel it, 4 each and I knew I was getting there, but JRoll's pops had thrown in the towel after 4 so I had to push myself. I barely finished my 5th and called it quits. JRoll and Simma were still trying to eat when Simma decided to shove 1/2 a fish in his mouth and proceeded to boot on the table in a pile of napkins. Unfortunately they were sitting right next to each other and JRoll couldn't eat anymore. Only Captain dave was able to finish 6 of the fish fries and the teams tied at 15 each.

That night, we somehow managed to start drinking, playing cards, and decided to do a recon mission in downtown Toga. It was very quiet, although being a wednesday night, that was understandable. We grabbed a pitcher, listened to a cover band, and on the way back, we got a couple texts from PalosaurusRex saying he's boarding the plane. Sucka flew redeye.



The other big moments, palosaurusrex took a great picture on the night of the 4th -->
, $14 PBR pitchers at the bar on the lake, Palosaurusrex singing friends in low places at karaoke, and singing I'm on a boat mother fucker take a look at me! In hindsight... we probably would have won that eating contest had dave & I figured out a way to use that herbal supplement without JRoll's family catching on.