CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Rob Matos wasn’t surprised this past weekend when his son, Carolina Panthers rookie defensive end Yetur Gross-Matos, called to say he won the team’s first official hot dog eating contest.
“He came out [of the womb] a big eater," the elder Matos said with a laugh. “He was the one child I always let him order anything he wanted because I knew he wasn’t going to waste it."
If anything, Matos jokingly declared his son’s victory as vindication for all the pie-eating contests he was “cheated" out of winning in high school and at Penn State, where he was a two-time All-Big Ten selection.