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 "I have the sweats but I feel a lot better because I know I don't
have to eat any more chicken wings," the winner, Patrick Bertoletti,
said after narrowly beating prior record-holder Molly Schuyler, who
gobbled 440 wings in front of a crowd of thousands at the area where
the city's National Basketball Association franchise, the 76ers,
plays.
Bertoletti ate 50 wings in the last two minutes of the contest,
ripping the meat from the bone and stuffing it in his mouth, a
technique that left him chewing for more than two minutes after the
final buzzer rang.
 The new record shocked Angelo Cataldi, the sports talk radio
broadcaster who conceived of the contest as a consolation to
Philadelphia sports fans, who have seen their Eagles football team
make it only twice to the Super Bowl, which they have never won.
"I didn't think it was possible," Cataldi said.
The contest, hosted by Philadelphia sports talk radio station 94
WIP, features entrants with colorful nicknames who are ushered in
with immense entourages featuring scantily lad women called
"wingettes."
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"It's my first year, and it's really fun, but I'm cold," said
wingette Amanda Dennis, who wore a bikini top made from electrical
tape as she entered the arena riding in a refrigerator with its top
cut off, along with another contestant who went by the name, Meat
Fridge.
(Reporting by Daniel Kelley; Editing by Scott Malone and Sandra
Maler)
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