Subway's Jared blames Nintendo for his weight problems
by James Ransom-Wiley 
{ Jan 19th 2006 at 11:00AM }
The man that made a name for himself eating Subway
sandwiches—and losing nearly 250 lbs. in the process—recently implicated Nintendo in the plot that made him
fat. While lecturing at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Jared Fogle told the audience that he could trace his past
weight problems back to "the best birthday present of my life: a Nintendo." Apparently Jared had perfected
the one-handed approach, as he "usually had one hand on the controller and one in a bag of chips." Although
his parents eventually limited his playing time, the damage had been done, and Jared continued down this dark path,
eventually topping out at 425 lbs.[Thanks, Juan]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Andy @ Mar 7th 2006 3:55PM
First of all Jared is a stupid suck-ass name to call anybody. Jared what a stupid fucking name that only stupid jackass's would be called. I thought I've heard stupid names but Jared is totally uncool to say the least. Stupid parent nowadays! That Jared on TV on Subway makes me not want to go there even though I love their sandwiches. Need I explain stupid guy that takes advantage of Subway for years and even stupidor name Jared. I hate that stupid name Jared is associated with Subway.
rich @ Jan 19th 2006 11:11AM
homeboy... blam your parents not nintendo. bonk!
Oh Boy... @ Jan 19th 2006 11:11AM
Fuck you jared you stupid fat ass. You got fat because you ate. Cause and effect, what goes around comes around, you are what you eat, and that my friend is a commercial whore.
youngsir @ Jan 19th 2006 11:12AM
you can't beat any game using one hand. or maybe i'm wrong. has anyone done this?
jabbertrack @ Jan 19th 2006 11:15AM
It's not the game's fault Jack... er Jared.
coffee @ Jan 19th 2006 11:16AM
when he gets the Revolution he'll actually lose weight!
Steve @ Jan 19th 2006 11:16AM
That fat bastard needs to point the finger back at himself. Wait, what's that? Better not be the sound of a class action law suit by a bunch of fatties...
CapAmerica @ Jan 19th 2006 11:19AM
I hated him before, Now I hate him even more.
I got a NES for my birthday and you don't see me passing the 400lb mark let alone 200lb mark. The guy is just a fat ass who will blame everyone but himeself.
Die Jared Die!
Ryan @ Jan 19th 2006 11:22AM
Actually, it Jared's parents' fault for not buying the PowerPad bundle.
And I'm sorry, but I've played Nintendo and eaten McDonald's since I was a kid and have never been overweight, mostly because I practice a little something Jared might think about using: restraint.
And another thing, I'm getting a little tired of seeing his goofy face all over the television talking about how healthy Subway subs are. Guess what I get when I'm at Subway-a foot-long BLT with double bacon on white bread with mustard and mayo. Let's see them compare that to McDonald's Chicken Strips!
Mike Daniels @ Jan 19th 2006 11:23AM
Another "blame everyone but myself" type. Me and my friends all had video game systems and yet we found the time to remove our butts away from the TV and get exercise.
AJM @ Jan 19th 2006 11:25AM
You know its funny, a person can blame nintendo or video games as a whole, but then you look at a large population of video game players and not all of them are extremely over weight. In situations like this you can only blame the people that make themselves overweight.
dan @ Jan 19th 2006 11:27AM
quick pull the CS advertisements. Jared is against gaming!!!
Mark @ Jan 19th 2006 11:28AM
Shouldn't he be thanking nintendo? Without the weight gain leading to the weight loss, he wouldn't of become a house hold name. Jeez, some people.
DCSimian @ Jan 19th 2006 11:31AM
@#2
Duck Hunt, or you could go no hands and play on the Power Pad...I actually had one :-/
...could never shoot that stupid dog.
Vagabond Artist @ Jan 19th 2006 11:33AM
If ever there were a better case study for the benefits of stealth assassination, Jared is it.
Vagabond Artist @ Jan 19th 2006 11:39AM
I just had to add how much I hate him.
HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE!!!!!
DIE JARED YOU EFFING ASSHAT!!!!
tittergrrl @ Jan 19th 2006 11:40AM
Blame the playa, not the game.
jon @ Jan 19th 2006 11:44AM
Oh Jared, it's on now. Don't go picking on games, fattie. There's plenty of people who play them and don't shove butter in their face while they do it. You turned yourself into a beanbag , not Nintendo. P.S. Subway makes awful sandwiches.
fawazr @ Jan 19th 2006 11:46AM
rant/
Does personal responsibility mean anything anymore? If you fuck up in life, it's your fault. Nintendo doesn't force kids to play their products nonstop like the little sugar-crazed dipshits they are. And Nintendo definitely isn't forcing anyone to eat themselves into oblivion. Jared now makes a career of being the poster child for irresponsibility: 1) Before fast food chains got healthy, he had no choice but to be fat and ugly 2) Now that there's Subway, Jared can just be chubby and unattractive. I hate the whole "it's not my fault" approach to life because it makes it okay for people like Jack Thomspon to come in and make decisions for everyone else because they think they know better than you and I. Sorry, to sound bitter and recalcitrant, but NOBODY knows better than me when it comes to what decisions I should make, especially when it comes to my beloved pastime of playing videogames.
/rant
Jonathan @ Jan 19th 2006 11:49AM
...I blame the chips.
Jellodyne @ Jan 19th 2006 11:51AM
Apparently the 'one handed' variety of game is very popular in Japan, and features titles like _Lecherous Teacher: Schoolgirl Molester 7_
joe @ Jan 19th 2006 11:54AM
you can easily gain the same weight, either one hand hold a book and one in the chips, or one doing Calc and the other in the chips. It's not the activity, it's the lack of exercise.
Phranctoast @ Jan 19th 2006 11:57AM
Doesn't Jared have aids
Justin @ Jan 19th 2006 11:59AM
This story just made me laugh.. I love how people put blame on things they THEMSELVES choice to do.
"Ohh man I have terrible foot pains now due to my hours upon hours of playing DDR constantly even though I know I should have stopped but instead opted for a 24 hour DDR athon right then and there"
HAHHA please
Sean DL @ Jan 19th 2006 12:06PM
err..he called the Nintendo "the best birthday present of his life" so it's not liek he's dissing gaming.
More that it(and the bag of chips) was one of the many reasons why he got the way he was.
He didn't say it caused it, just help, which none of you can prove it didn't.
TV, gaming, music, ect...aren't exactly motivators(Unless they actually are about motivation. lol).
JodyAnthony @ Jan 19th 2006 12:08PM
Is nothing safe from Jared? Radio, TV, Billboards, Store signs, Magazine ads, etc etc, and now Games.
I think when you die, if you go to hell, you don't see the devil. You just have to make awkward love to Jared for all eternity.
Todd @ Jan 19th 2006 12:10PM
no, No, NO! Good grief people. It's being a lazy fart that wants to sit in front of a TV all day that makes you fat. Plus it's your parents fault for letting you have access to crappy foods and allowing you to park your butt in front of the idiot box and not move.
My sister-in-law it getting very overweight and her mom says that she doesn't know what to do. You open the pantry and it's nothing but prepackaged foods and snacks. Everyone in that house has health problems that can be traced back to their diet. There hasn't been a bowl of fruit in their house ever. The only vegetables are usually fries. We were there for a while during the holidays and I was dying to get back home so I could have a proper meal. One day we had nothing but bagel bites, meatballs, crackers with spray cheese and chicken nuggets...all day, every meal. This is a standard meal at their place and it is a prime example of why people are getting fat in this country. It's just as easy to blame couch companies for making you fat because the couch was so comfortable but it's a lot harder to say it's my fault for not encouraging proper diet and exercise.
Scott @ Jan 19th 2006 12:11PM
Dumbass. I've been playing video games since the days of the Atari 2600. Only difference is is that I've never been a snacker and I also played sports (you know, like outside and stuff) while growing up.
I'm currently 6'2 and 205lbs. I never gained weight until I got an office job. I declare that office jobs are the number one culprit for overweight people in America! I know expect Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman to start introducing laws to ban office jobs!
watership @ Jan 19th 2006 12:12PM
Wow. Harsh words here. Being severely overweight is a little more complex than "stop eating". You'd think this crowd would be a little less ignorant.
Reytacular @ Jan 19th 2006 12:16PM
Im not going to eat at subway EVER!!! go McDonalds.
bornonce @ Jan 19th 2006 12:16PM
Thanks, Jellodyne. That was truly funny!
Clu @ Jan 19th 2006 12:16PM
Why do you all hate this man for making a joke? I don’t think he is putting the blame on Nintendo, he calls it the best birthday present of his life. This is being take way out of context just to make a head line. Come on people use your thinking skills. And what’s with all the hate toward fat people, I bet most of you making these comments aren’t the thinnest blokes around.
rich @ Jan 19th 2006 12:17PM
@#3
back in vallejo, ca there was this one armed guy that pwnd street fighter II. because of him people using the one armed style to play. ex: pinky around shaft of controller and the rest of the digits had control over buttons.
he was fresh.
Paul @ Jan 19th 2006 12:23PM
My God, Jared was obviously being tongue in cheek, and even called it the best birthday present ever. Cut him some slack. And don't say the man doesn't know about personal responsibility. He fucking lost 250 pounds! That takes personal responsibility!
JoeyCrack @ Jan 19th 2006 12:25PM
Control! Control! You must learn control!
JodyAnthony @ Jan 19th 2006 12:31PM
Hey, I'm overweight and I play video games too.
It's not the video games fault though, its because after sitting at a cubicle for 9 hours a day I don't really feel like going to the gym.
I got my gut from good old American laziness.
Abe @ Jan 19th 2006 12:39PM
Dude, Jared would have never been allowed to come over to my place to play video games. If there is one thing I hate more than anything else (at least when it comes to playing video games), it's having someone grease up your controllers because they're eating chips or food and then not wiping their hands off before grabbing the controller.
_MaH @ Jan 19th 2006 12:41PM
Jared never blamed Nintendo for making him over-weight - that's only inferred by the headline of this article.
Jared called Nintendo "the best birthday present of [his] life". He then says that he "usually had one hand on the controller and one in a bag of chips".
Jared never said that Nintendo was directly to blame for his weight gain. In fact, I would like to point out to everybody who's cursing him for "blaming others" not taking control of himself, that he DID take control of himself! He worked out, ate healthy and lost weight!
I have no opinion about Jared one way or the other, but the title of the article is mis-leading because the verbatim quote of what he says in no way accuses Nintendo of making him fat.
Come to think of it, if there's an over-weight gamer out there reading this comment right now, make a claim to fame for yourself too! Eat a 6-inch veggie delight for lunch and dinner (as Jared did) and work out by playing endless amounts of DDR.
"Konami made me thin!" (heh)
_MaH
Spamalot @ Jan 19th 2006 12:42PM
Did he eat the NES? LOL
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Cyberclaws @ Jan 19th 2006 1:19PM
I wonder how much Sony paid Jared or Joystiq to say or come up with this story? =P
what's a succubus @ Jan 19th 2006 1:21PM
Most of us probably hated Jared long before this whole deal. I can't fucking stand the guy OR his stupid comercials.
Think about it. Subway sandwhiches are like 50% bread. Bread IS NOT GOOD FOR YOU. It converts mostly to fat. Jared DID NOT lose all his weight from eating at subway. He ate there often enough that he could make comercials saying he lost weight and he ate at subway. Big fucking deal. He probably at a sandwhich once a day or once a week and ate light meals the rest of the day AND WORKED OUT and that's how he lost weight. Subway had nothing to do with it. You can afford to eat a heavy meal every day and eat light the rest of the day, work out and lose weight. It's called a diet and exercise. If you eat subway 3 meals a day like that super size me guy you will probably get similar results as the super size me guy. You'll become an almost dead fat fuck. End of story.
Endlessnameless @ Jan 19th 2006 2:40PM
I hope Jared's life gets prematurely ended after choking on a 6". I used to think that he did well for himself by losing all that weight and I *had* a lot of respect for the man.
#36 makes the point that he never directly places the blame on nintendo but I say nay-nay (listen to John Pinnette to get that one =D ) He makes no attempt to *directly* place the blame on Nintendo but he indirectly places the blame on them.
#36 also states Jared called Nintendo "the best birthday present of [his] life". He then says that he "usually had one hand on the controller and one in a bag of chips".
Why bring up Nintendo or Video games for that matter at all if it had nothing to do with his massive weight gain. He is indirectly placing the blame on Video games for "making" him have a sedentary lifestyle in front of the tv and "forcing" him to snack on fatty foods instead of fruits and whatnot. The way I see it, why even mention video games in the first place? He could have made the entire speech without using a video game reference and getting his point across. I think its poor judgement on his part as he kind of absolves himself of any responsibility for his weight gain and places it on other things.
#36 - Sorry If it seemed I am picking on you. Thats not the intention. I scrolled all the way to the bottom w/o reading the posts and came to your post which seemed well written.
You are an idiot @ Jan 19th 2006 3:59PM
And I used to like Jared... It was HIS decision to play nintendo and pig out on chips, not Nintendo's!!
That's just like blaming your calculator for failing your last math test.
Idiot. (click link for more info)
Ray @ Jan 19th 2006 5:15PM
i play alot of video games, and i eat more mcdonalds andd pizza than anyone should and i cant pass the 150lbs mark, tho i do play alot of hockey after school
Alonando @ Jan 19th 2006 5:16PM
Wake up people! and take an honest look in the mirror, you are not only what you eat, but you also are what you do. The more you game the less you exercise. It's as simple as that.
Dylan Horkin @ Jan 19th 2006 6:04PM
Yes yes, blame the box for making you fat. While you are perfectly able to exercise, you choose NOT to. It's not the game's fault if you get overweight: it's your own. Learn some self control, or just don't buy junk.
dan @ Jan 19th 2006 9:16PM
He's not blaming Nintintdo you morons! Get off your fanboy crosses. He is simply recalling the habits in his life that led to his inactivity that he believes led to his obesity. If anything he is giving Nintendo a complaiment. Saying it was that additive.
Oh Boy... @ Jan 20th 2006 2:39AM
Well I still fucking hate jared so thats why I used my comment.
Jim @ Jan 21st 2006 4:19PM
Jared got AIDES.