Another Sport NE Dominates: Competitive Oyster-Shucking
Now, Gossip on Sports has a well-documented bias in favor of New England sports teams. There’s certainly plenty going on around here, with the Sox nabbing the World Series crown, the Pats-Colts matchup tomorrow, Boston College doing damage at the NCAA level, the Celts on tap for a good season, and the Bruins off to a decent start.
But we’re not a one-trick pony. Actually, that’s five tricks. But still, there’s more in the bag.
We’re also the home to the Champion of the U.S. National Oyster Shucking Competition. William “Chopper” Young of Wellfleet, MA—that’s on Cape Cod, for you touristy types—snatched victory from the tightly shut shells of defeat by shucking 24 oysters in 2 minutes, 53 seconds. The time is adjusted for penalties . . . and we’re really curious about constitutes a penalty, by the way . . .
Young will go on to represent the US of A at the Guinness World Oyster Opening Championship in Ireland next year.
We’re happy for Young, even if he cites the incredibly dorky goal of winning the world title as his ultimate would-be achievement. Note to Young: Beware of hyperbole and/or saying weird things to the press. I’m not sure I would have claimed a world title for shucking oysters as my “greatest goal,” much less follow it up with: “That’s where the true glory resides. After that, I can retire!”
Well, we hope he means “retire from competition” and not “ready to collect my Social Security check now and/or write a tell-all about the dark underbelly of competitive oyster shucking.” No word on whether Young consumes oysters at a similarly rapid rate, but he may have a whole new recreational activity to keep him busy after retirement if what they say about men and oysters is true . . .
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