I’ve been asking college football players and coaches what food they could eat against World Champion Joey Chestnut for years now. The answers vary – some say wings, other say pizza, one crafty young man recently said Maryland blue crab because he figured the shell would slow Chestnut down.
But in all my time throwing curveball questions at these guys, I never had a Captain Hook thrown back at me.
Until Charlotte head football coach Will Healy said something to me at Conference USA media day that stopped me in my tracks.
“I will tell you this – the sign bearer for Joey Chestnut in the Krystal eating contest back in 2008 is my beautiful wife,” admitted the fourth-year 49ers head coach.