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FRANKLIN — Eli Sanders and Brad Collins set out to live forever in pizza history.

Their challenge: devour "The Reaper," a monstrous pizza the equivalent of four large pies, with almost 3.5 pounds of dough spread 28 inches across.

Pisanello's Pizza is offering the dish for its 26th anniversary with a call for the biggest eaters.

If two people eat the two-topping pie in 30 minutes without leaving the table, it's free.

Fail, and your stomach better be bigger than your wallet. The Reaper, the Hummer of all pizzas, costs $40.95.

Sanders and Collins were confident as they sat down to face the Goliath of foods, which was too big to fit on a two-person table.

Why try eating enough food to feed a large party in one sitting?

"Because I can," Sanders said.

Five minutes and 17 pieces into the challenge, Sanders and Collins were confident in their lead bellies.

"Ask me again in 10 minutes when I'm wanting to cry," Collins said between slices.

Collins was a member of the first team to try and fall to the giant pizza.

Four others followed, also conceding to the pie.

"We can do this," Sanders said, mostly to himself, with 20 minutes and 10 pieces left.

"What are the rules, if we finish then vomit. What happens then," he asked a second later.

"As long as you finish," said Brian Combs, whose father, Tom, owns the business.

At the 15-minute mark, Sanders, a growing pile of crusts on his plate still waiting to be eaten, said "it's starting to hit me now. It's painful."

The white flags went up with 3 minutes and 9 slices — and a pile of crusts — left to eat.

"I don't think I can do it," Sanders said, laying down in the booth with a hand over his stomach and the other on his forehead.

And so, the Reaper claimed two more victims.

The one pizza to rule them all.