Wings shortage may ruin Super Bowl for some fans

06:28 PM ET 01.23 | We're less than two weeks away from the biggest day in professional football but the drama surrounding the game has already started. But this drama has nothing to do with Ray Lewis' final game or the Harbaugh brothers squaring off in the ultimate sibling showdown. Rather, the drama surrounds the fact that when you go to your Super Bowl party, and you ask for the chicken wings, they might not be there. The National Chicken Council released a report that stated the demand for wings this year is at "an all-time high" and that they are lowering the estimated number of wings to be consumed this year by over 12 million. Due to the high cost of corn and feed prices, chicken companies produced 1 percent fewer birds than last year, meaning we have a chicken wing shortage on our hands this year. Huffington Post reported that the supermarket cost of a pound of chicken rose in cost by over $1.97 from last year's price. So that chicken you bought last year at $0.55/per pound is now going to cost you a whopping $2.52/per pound. Basically, if you thought Y2K and the Mayan 2012 thing was a big deal, that was child's play compared to the great wing scare of 2013.

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