The Tigers are in the Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl, so it makes sense that at some point this week they’d be served Buffalo Wild Wings chicken, perhaps even at an actual Buffalo Wild Wings. Guess what happened Tuesday night.
LSU devours more than 4,000 chicken wings preparing for its bowl game
This is much more important than any practice.
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They ate a lot of chicken.
However, sources were unable to confirm how many wings coach Ed Orgeron ate.
What’s the tab on all this, you might wonder? A party package of 150 wings from our friends at Buffalo Wild Wings would cost you $122.99 apiece. To cater this many wings, you’d need around $3,279.73.
Back-of-napkin math also tells us a chicken wing equates to about three ounces. That brings us to somewhere in the neighborhood of 12,000 ounces, or 750 pounds, for all these wings. Imagining there are just north of 100 players on the trip — 85 scholarships plus walk-ons — maybe you’d expect more to be eaten.
Notable wing-eating conquests have people eating over 400 by themselves. I’d imagine members of the team nutrition staff were on hand to curb the gluttony, though. Wouldn’t want one of your guys going down during bowl week with a gnarly stomach bug of some sort.
We also have to factor in whatever sides or other things the players had to eat. It’s not just wings. Either way, it sounds like a pretty swell time at a central Florida chain restaurant.
And either way, the Tigers have restored the SEC’s honor after the eating embarrassment of 2015.
The Tigers nearly did that number by themselves, so good work upholding the South’s reputation at dinner plates across the country.
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