Wing Bowl 17

Finally I'm getting around to talking about the Wing Bowl on Friday.  

I stayed over Carole's house on Thursday night and we had gone out to poker the night before, so when 3AM rolled around and it was time for us to get up, we were both pretty much useless.  We went to Wawa to pick up breakfast sandwiches only to find out that they don't have breakfast sandwiches at 3AM.  Fortunately the kind man behind the deli counter made them for us anyway.  We got to Rob's house around 4, and pre-gamed there for a little while until 5ish when Jen (Rob's girlfriend who wasn't actually going to the wing bowl) drove us down to Wachovia Stadium.

If you don't know what exactly the Wing Bowl is, I'm going to take a moment to explain it:

The Wing Bowl began 17 years ago, when some person who was probably white trash decided that it would be a good idea to start a hot wing eating contest. They used to let both amateur and professional eaters alike join the contest, but this year they made it open to only amateur eaters.  To enter the contest, a person would either have to win a small hot wing eating contest at a local bar, or they would have to call in to the radio station and have some crazy food thing, such as eating 4 hoagies in 10 minutes, approved by the radio staff.  The winner gets a car and maybe some other stuff. I don't really know.  But anyway, the Bowl starts at 6AM, but before the actual contest begins, they have a parade of sorts, where each participant has their own little entourage.  Each of the contestants is supported by a local strip club, so there are a lot of strippers there.  A lot.  Beer goes on sale at 7AM, although most people are already crocked by that time.  The audience is about 80% male, and the females in the crowd are cheered for flashing the crowd (if they choose to do so. i didn't), and usually the camera men will put them up on the big screen.  When the contest starts it's two 14 minute rounds with a break in between to count the wings, and then a 2 minute round for the finalists.  

This year, 4 people puked.  It was quite gross.  The whole thing was pretty gross but amazingly fun.  I will definitely go again next year if I can.  It was crazy.  And the lawyers from Boston who were two rows behind us had this rubber chicken that made this noise that sounded like it was dying.  Carole was very very amused and they gave it to her.  Needless to say, she played with it the entire way home and bothered everyone who looked like they were on their way to work (it was 9AM).  It was so much fun though.

Only in Philadelphia would this disgusting gluttony be displayed.  Well, maybe they would have it at another city, but I'm pretty sure that the entire stadium wouldn't sell out in 10 minutes like it did for this (did I tell you that we had front row seats too?), and I'm pretty sure that people wouldn't come out at 5AM to see people vomit chicken wings.

.....In other news.....

Emily, Danielle and I just watched Gossip Girl. It was frickin amazing.  We screamed twice.  I can't believe that Dan is sleeping with that bitchy teacher lady.  I hate her.  And I hate that Dan was jumping in the sack with her right after Serena broke up with him.  What a douche bag.  I hope she gets knocked up and i hope the school finds out about it and sends her to jail where she belongs.  

I think we were all actually rooting for Blair and her conniving ways the entire time.  It was so ridiculous that a teacher would be meeting up with her students outside of the classroom like that anyway, even without a relationship.  And that bitch lied to Serena and said that she had a meeting to get to, when really she was just going to see Dan at that diner place.  She deserves everything that's coming to her.