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SHELLEY – Becoming world champions in the Shelley Spud Day spud tug is a dream come true for Lyle Dye.
The Firth man is one of five people who made up the Potato Skins. It was one of numerous teams who competed in a tug of war over a pit filled with 1,000 pounds of mashed potatoes Saturday.
Before the event began, EastIdahoNews.com overheard one of Dye’s kids jokingly say, “If my dad wins this, I think it will be the highest achievement of his whole life.”
After receiving the large trophy and the $150 cash prize at what has to be the most unapologetically Idaho event ever, Dye and his teammates looked towards a spirited crowd and jumped up and down for taking home the top award.
In a conversation with EastIdahoNews.com, Dye laughed in response to his son’s previous statement before sarcastically proclaiming it was, indeed, his finest achievement ever.
“That’s absolutely true,” Dye said. “I’ve never done anything better in my life, except for maybe my marriage, grandkids and my love of God. Other than that, it’s way up there.”
Gregg Nelson, one of the organizers of the spud tug, says the winners are crowned the world champions because there’s no other event like this anywhere in the world.
“The only place in the world that I’m aware of where we fill up a hole in the ground full of mashed potatoes, we tug of war across the top of that. That’s epic!” Nelson says. “Nobody else does that.”
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