He's definitely not sideshow-freak material today, but he'd definitely be the fattest person on an average subway car. I don't get your point. He might be the

He's definitely not sideshow-freak material today, but he'd definitely be the fattest person on an average subway car. I don't get your point. He might be the fattest in a subway car, but the point is that there's another like him in just about every subway car. One hundred years ago the fat guy was (say) 1 in a 100_000; nowadays it is 1 in 100.