Brooklyn Doggers showed up!

Wow. Words cannot describe the sheer volumes consumed at this year’s NCD Brooklyn Doggers bash, but numbers can.

This year was truly one for the books. A sigh of relief was heard upon news that the quarter pound jumbo dogs of 2006 were a thing of the past and we were back to "regular-sized" dogs. Confidence ran high as a result. The big story came late in the evening after the crowd had dwindled from 80 to 20. Those who stuck around until the final buzzer got to witness history: THREE triple doubles. Only twice in our seven-year NCD history has the triple double been achieved. This was a great moment.

Leif posted first at 9:30pm with the “slow and steady wins the race” approach: one dog, tot serving and beer per hour. A small window into the feelings of a victor can be caught on this video clip -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u21Q9VOi5OE. Leif declared he’s hanging up his gloves and says he looks forward to sitting back next year and offering nuggets of wisdom to the next aspirant.

Joel posted second at 10pm with an unprecedented finish ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKlUJCN3alM ). Nearly half his triple double – 3 beers, 5 dogs and 4 tot servings – was consumed in under two hours. “I can see the light,” he said at 8pm, and then just started eating...rapidly. Amazingly, after being crowned, and in an unintentional moment of hubris, he cracked open a PBR tall boy to finish off the night.

Michael W. made it across the finish line at 10:45pm with some crowd encouragement – Ben and Liz removed excess ketchup and reheated his last six tots in the toaster oven – but not before shouting, “If I’m going down, you’re all coming with me!” And then he drooled into his cup, just to make everyone else feel kinda sick too.

Anyway, probably too graphic for some, let’s get back to the numbers. Here are the totals:

Registered Athletes: 66
Total corndogs consumed: 235 (up 17% from last year)
Total beers consumed: 268 (up 32% from last year)
Total tot servings consumed: 159 (up .6% from last year)

More photos of this great day can be found on flickr.

Thanks to all at NCD headquarters and of course Foster Farms and PBR!!! We look forward to next year.

- Neysa and Michael