Challenge went belly up

I just can't believe what people will do for money some times! Just a little side note about JJ. When he was 13 years old he got dared to swim across a pool that haden't been cleaned in 6 months filled with frogs, snakes, and mud all for $16!! Of course he did it and few of his friends actually paid up. Then he was dared to eat half an onion for $5, and of course did that too!!!You would think that he had learned. All these crazy stories you hear after you marry the guy ;)

So when JJ heard about this Pointers Pizza challenge in St. Louis he was all for it! JJ found another crazy friend like himself to do this thing! The deal is, you and one other person have to eat a 28" pizza in an hour and if you do, you get $500. JJ researched and researched and had been preparing for it as well as his friend Steve. He would eat one big meal around 3:00 each day and lots and lots of water. Unfortunatly he got a little sick the week of and couldn't quite train like he wanted, anyways with hesitation, he decided to give it a go anyway.

The funny thing is, he called the whole family to have them pray for him that he will win the money. I told him that if he won, that would be awesome because it could go toward his lasik eye surgery that he had been wanted since forever. Right before we left to go to the resturant, he was gettin' himself all pumped up watching Rocky and listening to "eye of tiger" swinging punches in our living room (I should have taken some photos of that cause that was hilarious).

So we get there and the pizza comes out lookin like this:

Talk about flippin HUGE!!!

The boys are lookin pretty confident kinda like this:


Timer starts and they start chowin kind of like this:


Their stratigies were set and their confidence was high. Five minutes later, they were already like this:


Steve started complaining that his jaw was hurting, and JJ was on the floor doing push ups to try and create more of an appitite. 40 minutes in, they surrendered with this much left to go:


Their surrendering attitudes with sickness starting to set in:



Dominic finishing up the aftermath:


The funniest thing about it was, we thought that there had been 17 people who finished the contest just since this year, but turns out its only been 17 people since they started the compitition 10 years ago. Needless to say JJ was sick the whole rest of the evening, but fortunately for me, you are only given one shot at this contest in your whole life. So Pointers Pizza wont be seeing us again, that is unless JJ gets another bee in his bonnet to do the milkshake contest which is 16, 16oz milkshakes in an hour! Ha, yeah right!