Buffalo Bills rookies enjoy a Buffalo treat for the first time

The first chicken wing is part of any new Buffalo resident’s indoctrination into the city, usually occurring between their first Labatt Blue snowstorm and their first Lake Effect snowstorm. The cultural acclimation of the Buffalo Bills’ 2024 NFL draft class is well underway, with the team recently uploading a video of its rookies indulging in local chicken wings for the first time.

The humorous clip shows many of the team’s first-year players trying their first chicken wing. In Buffalo, many of them being… hesitant about the presence of blue cheese on their plates. You can watch the full video below:

The video is generally humorous, with linebacker Edefuan Ulofoshio’s wing-eating technique and offensive tackle Travis Clayton’s ringing endorsement of the dish potentially being the funniest parts.

The chicken wing, incorrectly called a “Buffalo wing” outside of Western New York, is a regional delicacy, a not necessarily nutritious but oh-so-delicious dish that was invented in the city in the middle of the 20th century. century. The origin story told in the inner cities around Teressa Bellissimo, then owner of the local “Anchor Bar”, who allegedly fried usually discarded pieces of chicken for some of the bar’s hungry patrons in the mid-1960s. — and the Anchor Bar cash register — were full, as the aperitif had become a national phenomenon that proudly wears its Buffalo roots on its sleeve (or wing).

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Blue cheese is the condiment of choice for chicken wings in Western New York, a realization many Buffalo rookies make for the first time in this video. Ranch is the main wing dip in other parts of the country and world, but it’s considered blasphemous in Buffalo. Those who dip their wings in ranch dressing might as well walk around with a scarlet letter on their chest.

With the team’s entire rookie class now signed, these are just the first of many chicken wings these players will likely enjoy throughout their respective stays in Buffalo.