National Buffalo Wing Festival
national buffalo wing festival wing fest weekend festival held labor day weekend highmark stadium orchard park new york united state celebrating buffalo style chicken wing festival culminates ifoce sanctioned buffalo wing eating contest taken place sunday festival since except canceled festival inaugurated sahlen field founder drew cerza called wing king buffalo news said modeled event fictitious festival movie osmosis jones jill greenburg said local festival come gone wing fests staying power result raising approximately local charity serving almost chicken wing sauce variety hungry visitor year festival video webcast live online viewer september joey chestnut consumed wing weighing pound kg minute take competitiveeating trophy seventime champion sonya thomas becoming first new champion since losing miki sudo chestnut returned winning way breaking record eating wing successfully defended title next year breaking yet another record time eating wing september two year later set another record time wing september geoff esper hold record festival canceled due covid pandemic th deferred however chicken wing fun run went virtual event held highmark stadium festival returned festival also added qualifying event usa mullet championship cerza found fitting synergy given haircut popularity ice hockey popular sport buffalo contest national buffalo wing festival include u chicken wing eating championship amateur chicken wing eating amateur traditional sauce contest amateur creative sauce contest ridiculously hot wing eating contest miss buffalo wing bobbing wing baby wing buffalo buffet bowl yanceys fancy cheesiest couple contest yanceys fancy cheesy danceoff contest battle border college wing eating competition chicken wing k mi run since contest duration minute festival buffalo new york official website