Americans are projected to eat 1.48 billion chicken wings while watching the Patriots and Seahawks battle for the National Football League championship trophy on Sunday (Feb. 8, 2026).
According to the National Chicken Council’s annual Chicken Wing Report, that’s about 10 million more chicken wings than were eaten during last year’s game.
Retail prices for fresh wings are down 2.8% year-over-year, with a four-week moving average of $3.47 per pound, according to Wells Fargo’s Super Bowl Food Report. This decrease in cost comes thanks to U.S. broiler producers boosting domestic production by 2.2% in 2025, aided by lower feed costs.
What would 1.48 billion chicken wings stacked up look like? Well, Chicken Council spokesperson Tom Super says:
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Laid end to end, they’d stretch from Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, to Lumen Field in Seattle, Washington, roughly 27 times.
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They’d circle the planet at the equator almost three times.
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If you eat one wing every 30 seconds, you’ll finish eating 1.48 billion wings around the year 3430….Or it’s one wing eaten every 30 seconds since the fall of the Roman Empire.
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You’d need more than 3,400 fully loaded semi-trucks to haul them all. That’s enough semis to make a 40-mile long convoy.
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