Let the games begin!

    The Olympics start on Friday not 8/8/08 as NBC has been drilling into our heads with their incessant promotional advertisements for the past six months.  They start in Brooklyn on the Fourth of July and the best of the best from the nations of the world will be represented at the games.  What am I writing about?
    The annual hot dog eating competition of course.  Who can forget the upset victory of America's own Joey Chesnut winning back the gold after so many years?  Or the gutsy performance of the legendary  Takeru Kobayashi who presaged Tiger Woods' US Open performance by fighting through a severe case of TMJ to come in a close second to Chestnut?
    Forget about track and field, swimming or gymnastics.  Who but freaks of nature could stand on an Olympic medal stand?  But all of us if we have stomachs of steel and the ability to push through the heartburn can dream of being hot dog champ.  I can't wait.