If you are a football fan, and you plan to watch the Super Bowl Sunday, there is a good chance you will be eating chicken wings.

Sometime in the past two decades, wings became the defining game-day snack; so as it does every year, the National Chicken Council has released a forecast of how many wings will be eaten. Their estimate: 1.25 billion wing portions—enough, the trade group says, to lay a round-trip path between the teams’ home stadiums 28 times, or circle the Grand Canyon 120 times, or put 572 wings on every seat in every NFL stadium in the U.S.

Which is entertaining math. But what interests me is what is missing in the game-day equation. That is: Where