About MacWing

Born as a result of a drunken one-night stand between Rod Stewart and Sheena Easton, MacWing is a Scotsman through and through. He is as cheap as a college student’s furniture and he has the equipment under his kilt to be unfazed by grates, ground-level fans, or shoe mirrors.

His prowess for eating was discovered early on as baby MacWing would eagerly empty is dear mother’s teat in a matter of seconds. Worried that her son’s veracious appetite would ruin her comeback in music, Easton abandoned MacWing on the steps of what was thought to be an orphanage, but was actually the Chucky Cheese on Roosevelt Boulevard.

Growing up in Philadelphia, he became a recess legend. As a grade schooler in South Philly, MacWing would amaze his classmates by downing eleven haggis sandwiches-- with and a pint of McEwan’s Ale in the time it took others to eat one Pat’s cheesesteak.

Finding no way to make a living through his eating prowess, MacWing quit school at the age of 13 and walked the streets of Philadelphia occasionally selling the pictures he drew to low-class businesses and porn peddlers. He survived by eating the garnishments at unsuspecting drinking establishments and betting on time-delayed jai-lia games. He also entered underground eating contest serving as the under-card to bare-knuckle boxing fights in North Philly.

After incurring severe gambling loses due to his inability to add and subtract, Collingswood, New Jersey’s organized crime syndicate forced MacWing into servitude. As a result he began to take dives at local eating competitions, once losing a hot dog eating contest to Calista Flockhart.

Once MacWing’s willingness to throw eating contests became apparent to others, he was dumped by the mob and banned from competition. He has spent the last 5-years living under the Market-Frankford El and drinking inordinate amounts of Jim Beam and recycled motor oil.

On February 14, 2005, MacWing was spotted near Delilah’s Den by competitive eating legend, the Old Original Wing Kong. Sensing MacWing’s ennui and despair, Wing Kong vowed to help MacWing return to glory and regain his reputation as the pre-eminent eating champ.

MacWing has never actually seen Wing Bowl but wonders how a guy as successful as El Wingador could have such a bad haircut. Surely there is some press-hungry salon that would offer the champ a free make-over in return for the publicity, no?

A little more truthful

MacWing is the alter idiom of Eric Livingston, a graphic designer from Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. Eric is happily married with three wonderful children and spends his spare time attending sporting events with his kids, running, and reading. This is Eric’s first competitive eating contest, unless you count the “corn races” he and his roommates would have in college. First one to “digest” a can of corn wins. Eric attended Yale University, Harvard College, the London School of Economics and the Sorbonne. Perhaps “attend” is a bit misleading. Eric visited those places. He neither matriculated nor graduated from any of those institutions. He did, however, graduate Rowan University with a degree in Illustration.

Did you know?

· MacWing has lost weight while training for Wing Bowl. He credits his strict exercise regiment for the loss.

· MacWing qualified for Wing Bowl by eating 2 ½ pounds of Haggis in three minutes and forty seconds. Haggis is a Scottish delicacy consisting of sheep by-products stuffed into and cooked within a sheep’s belly. It makes scrapple look like a five-course meal from Le Bec Fin

· MacWing’s training consists of Saturday wing-eating time trials and the weekday consumption of up to eight pounds of oatmeal at one sitting. His manager is the legendary eater Wing Kong a former Wing Bowl contestant. He is also coached by his three sons.