The question of the day: Can the determined competitors of MLE (Major League Eating) recover from the drubbing that three of their fellow humans received yesterday at the hands trunks of the titanic trio from TGSOE (The Greatest Show On Earth) to set yet another record at Nathan’s world-famous hot dog eating contest?

Here’s coverage of yesterday’s historic event from the Daily News, and you can see photos from the Ringling Bros. Flickr feed here, but be sure to check out Gersh Kuntzman at The Brooklyn Paper: He did such a good job capturing the essence of the event, even The Huffington Post picked up his coverage.

JULY 4 UPDATE: The humans recover and Joey Chestnut retains the crown! Coverage here.

This entry was posted on Saturday, July 4th, 2009 at 8:21 am and is filed under This 'n' That.