This season, Ron, weighing in at 420 pounds, is competing alongside his hefty teenage son Mike on NBC's hit reality show, The Biggest Loser, where gargantuan contestants submit to a grueling and public starve-and-sweat spectacle for a shot at a $250,000 prize and the crowning but dubious moniker: the biggest loser.
Yet despite the strange spectacle of pulling shots in front of a cheering audience, the contestants say they are less concerned about putting on a show than about preparing extraordinary coffee.
From the sideline, Larry Wendt, a former sheriff's deputy whose saloon holds weekly live bull-riding spectacles, took the first shot.
It was a spectacle that had 25 shots, 12 cards (one of them for Unai Emery's assistant), three penalties and four goals.
Federer had won two straight points, and the next rally was a spectacle, extending to 29 shots with Tomic finally missing a forehand wide and then staring across the net at Federer as if he had seen something new.
Katalin and 10-year-old Orbán (Norbert Tankó) make their desolate journey on a horse-drawn wagon, and their lonely departure makes a melancholy, almost Hardyesque spectacle, photographed in long-shot in rolling hills and fields that have clearly not changed in centuries, in which mobile phones are the only clue to the period.
OK Go – who became kings of the one-shot synchronised spectacle with their treadmill video for Here it Goes Again in 2006 – delivered more eye-popping choreographed action in 2014.
Atlanta didn't do anything all that remarkable in terms of their defensive strategy, but without gimmick or spectacle the Hawks quietly challenged shots, limited their fouls, and forced a tremendous number of turnovers.
The Bitmoji hedge seems like a long shot, but so did Spectacles, so who knows how far this part of Snap's business can go.
Though the spectacle suffered, with the field denied a shot at glory – a state of affairs that is unlikely to change soon – the season was rescued by the intra-Mercedes battle, which promised yet more drama yesterday.
