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There are two types of people on Super Bowl Sunday: wing people and… well, people who eventually become wing people.Related video above: How to bake your wings and get them as crispy as possibleThe numbers back it up. According to the National Chicken Council’s annual Chicken Wing Report, Americans are expected to eat 1.48 billion chicken wings while watching this year’s Super Bowl — roughly 10 million more wings than last year.And in case your brain can’t process a billion anything, here’s how absurd that number really is:Laid end to end, those wings would stretch from Boston to Seattle 27 times. They’d circle the Earth almost three full laps, creating what can only be described as a crispy equator. Eat one wing every 30 seconds, and you’d still be chewing sometime around the year 3430. Moving them all would require more than 3,400 semi-trucks, forming a 40-mile convoy of nothing but chicken wings.In other words: America takes its game-day eating very seriously.Sales numbers also back it up. Wing purchases typically surge during playoff season, with retailers seeing massive jumps in both dollars spent and total volume. Tyson Foods, which sells nearly 6 billion wings a year, expects bone-in wing sales to spike another 20–30 percent around the Big Game, while boneless wings also see a big February bump.Classic Buffalo and BBQ still dominate orders, making up nearly 90% of sales, though newer favorites like lemon pepper and Korean BBQ are gaining ground. And most people don’t pick just one — more than half of shoppers grab multiple flavors or styles for their watch parties.The good news? Wings should be plentiful and relatively affordable this year thanks to increased production, even though storage inventories remain tight heading into the game.So if your Super Bowl menu is still TBD, consider this your official permission to lean into the super sauce-covered situation. Whether you start as a pizza person or not, odds are you’ll end the night reaching for just one more wing.
There are two types of people on Super Bowl Sunday: wing people and… well, people who eventually become wing people.
Related video above: How to bake your wings and get them as crispy as possible
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The numbers back it up.
According to the National Chicken Council‘s annual Chicken Wing Report, Americans are expected to eat 1.48 billion chicken wings while watching this year’s Super Bowl — roughly 10 million more wings than last year.
And in case your brain can’t process a billion anything, here’s how absurd that number really is:
Laid end to end, those wings would stretch from Boston to Seattle 27 times. They’d circle the Earth almost three full laps, creating what can only be described as a crispy equator. Eat one wing every 30 seconds, and you’d still be chewing sometime around the year 3430. Moving them all would require more than 3,400 semi-trucks, forming a 40-mile convoy of nothing but chicken wings.
In other words: America takes its game-day eating very seriously.
Sales numbers also back it up. Wing purchases typically surge during playoff season, with retailers seeing massive jumps in both dollars spent and total volume. Tyson Foods, which sells nearly 6 billion wings a year, expects bone-in wing sales to spike another 20–30 percent around the Big Game, while boneless wings also see a big February bump.
Classic Buffalo and BBQ still dominate orders, making up nearly 90% of sales, though newer favorites like lemon pepper and Korean BBQ are gaining ground. And most people don’t pick just one — more than half of shoppers grab multiple flavors or styles for their watch parties.
The good news? Wings should be plentiful and relatively affordable this year thanks to increased production, even though storage inventories remain tight heading into the game.
So if your Super Bowl menu is still TBD, consider this your official permission to lean into the super sauce-covered situation. Whether you start as a pizza person or not, odds are you’ll end the night reaching for just one more wing.
