Fun With Numbers: Kids Eat Free
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Over 15,000 kids were able to eat for free at Sunday and Monday BlueClaws home games in 2011, thanks to ShopRite.
As part of the program, which returns in 2012, children ages 12 and under get to eat for free at every Sunday and Monday BlueClaws home game. They receive a voucher good for a hot dog, bag of chips, and a soda.
So what exactly does 15,442 mean? Let’s take a look.
15,442 Hot Dogs laid out end to end:
- Would stretch for 1.71 miles
- In a line would require just over five laps of the FirstEnergy Park concourse
- Would stretch from home plate to centerfield and back to home plate 11 times
- After you hit your 11 home runs, you could round the bases 25 times
- 3.5 trips up and down the Empire State building
- Half of the Constitutional Walking Tour in Philadelphia
- 4 trips, front point to back point, of the USS Enterprise
- The length of 92 Blue Whales, the world’s largest animal
- If Joey Chestnut, who ate 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest this year, ate at that same rate, it would take him 1 day, 17 hours, and 30 minutes to eat 15,442 hot dogs.
15,442 Bags of Chips:
- At 21 chips per bag, that’s 324,282 potato chips
- The equivalent of 1.83 Volkswagen Beetles
- The equivalent of 6,037 bobblehead dolls
- There are 1.5 potatoes in every bag of chips, so that’s 23,613 potatoes. Since Idaho produces 6 billion potatoes each year, that’s as many potatoes as are produced in 2 minutes and 4 seconds.
15,442 Cups of Soda:
- 1,447.7 gallons
- Enough to fill the 100-gallon gas tank of 14 18-wheelers
- At one drop per ounce, and one drop per second, it would take 2 days, 3 hours, 28 minutes, and 24 seconds.
- If taken in water, it’s enough to water the average lawn for 11 hours and 16 minutes
- If taken in water, it’s enough to shower for 723 hours
Can’t beat that right?
We broke down the numbers at the end of the season…Almost eight miles of hot dogs given away by the BlueClaws as part of the Kids Eat Free, at every game, promotion done in 2009. This one-of-a-kind promotion was recognized recently by 
The final Kids Eat Free number in 2009 was 71,988, which translates into a cool 7.95 miles worth of hot dogs given out as part of the one-of-a-kind program. Let’s play around with numbers…
With the 7,700+ that came out to Monday’s BlueClaws game, the BlueClaws clinched their 9th straight South Atlantic League attendance title. The BlueClaws have, to date, drawn 415,000 fans in 2009 with two regular season home games remaining, and Greensboro, out of home games, finishes up at 406,549.
Kids are eating free here at FirstEnergy Park all season long thanks to ShopRite and NJ 101.5 FM. How many kids have eaten for free this season you ask?
As we kick off the second half, let’s look back at Kids Eat Free from the first. The BlueClaws gave out over 30,000 hot dogs, bags of chips, and a soda. From a hot dog standpoint, it’s enough to go three times across mid-town Manhattan. But here’s a better way to look at it.
they come to the park. So far…….22,334 kids have taken advantage of this offer…Let’s break this down even more:
