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Matt Rourke / AP
In this Feb. 4, 2011 photo, Bill "El Wingador" Simmons, left, embraces the winner of that year's Wing Bowl in Philadelphia, who won by a margin of a single wing. Simmons was reportedly indicted on cocaine charges this week.
A New Jersey man known as "El Wingador" for his championship titles in competitive wing-eating has been formally indicted this week on cocaine charges, local media reported.
Bill "El Wingador" Simmons was charged with multiple counts of possession and distribution of cocaine, the South Jersey Times reported. Simmons is known for his participation in a Philadelphia chicken wing eating contest known as the "Wing Bowl," organized each year before the Super Bowl by a local sports radio station.
Simmons, a 50-year-old Woodbury, N.J., resident, had been arrested last June and authorities recovered $8,000 worth of cocaine and $4,000 of cash, The Associated Press reported. Police told the AP they also found more evidence at two homes connected to the wing-eating champ.
A five-time winner, Simmons last won the Wing Bowl in 2005 for eating 162 chicken wings, according to the AP.
The Wing Bowl has become a sort of tradition in Philadelphia on the Friday preceding each Super Bowl, since its founding by a local 94WIP radio host in 1993.
Last year, the eating competition attracted 29 contestants and over 20,000 fans, according to the event site. This year's 21st competition was held Friday at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center, in advance of Super Bowl Sunday.
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Was the drug Crestor?
Who eats wings sober?
E A T S T R O N G
I might be wrong but I though Cocaine made you NOT hungry..
yes. that's why he snorted Cocaine a week before the contest and spent the next 7 days with an empty stomach. when the drug wore off he became a chicken wing monster.
You still need a good protein base before indulging.
When I saw the headline I thought weed. Coke??? I guess he had to pay for his wing habit somehow.
McCain will be holding hearings soon....
If 4,000.00 cash was all he had he must have just been getting rid of enough to pay for his habit. Either that or he has a good hiding place for it. Hell leave him alone, the feds are in the same business.
Wow! I always found coke to be a serious appetite supressant! Think of all those reed-thin super-models (except the anorexic/bulemic ones). Maybe he just sold to support his wing habit.
I figured it was Pot doping. How else could he be able to eat all of those chicken wings without enhancing his appetite?
Yeah ...and then it would have been a story worth reporting.
Good one. I heard he slipped up when they bugged his phone. Nobody uses pounds, ounces or grams of "Ranch Dressing".
LMAO, yeah had his titles stipped for using performance enhancing dope!
Pot Doping?
They have medical marijuana in New Jersey, so only idiots would get busted with pot there.
Why is this a thing?
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How shocking!
For decades we all thought marijuana was the gateway drug. Turns out it was wing sauce all along.
Does that make Buffalo a drug heaven?
Damn: just when we'd gotten over Lance Armstrong's doping scandal, now professional eating champ "El Wingadore."
Next thing you know someone is going to tell us that the Harlem Globetrotters didn't really win all those games, wrestling is fixed and Honey Boo Boo isn't really a princess.
Thank God it wasn't "the black widow." Babe can pack some groceries!
My God! WTF next?
Hey doping by "athletes" is not news---Armstrong, A-Rod, Sosa. They all do it, I guess; even the Babe was strung out on hot dogs and beer. I doubt the wing eater will be let off as easily though. Don't think wing eating pays the big bucks, and to get "justice" in the USA you must have the big bucks.
Man cannot live on wings alone.
And this is news why?
If he was smoking weed, he would have won all the contests!
We need drug testing in all food eating contests!
Some guy smoking a joint, and getting the munchies before a contest is just not right.
No PED in eating contests!!
Rex - are you high?
Who's gonna pay for that? Half the country allows it now...and it mellows you...not makes you want to go "shoot 'em up"! This guy obviously used his winnings to start a coke biz, Fool!
he turned to coke to shed some of his lb's so as not to continue being a gluten and a FAT AsS!
He won't be eating wings in prison.
He just needs to pull a Lance Armstrong: Deny, deny, deny.
Wing Doping.. He should be stripped of all his titles.
Drug dealer huh? Lock him up and throw away the key! I'm sick of all of these thugs!
Wings go better with Coke !!!
How many many cheese burgers! was that.
What a NUMBSKULL !!!
And the worst thing for him is he's an Eagles fan. They are one of those teams that NEVER won a Super Bowl.
Haaaaaaaaaaaa.......
They say that he had a second wind in these contests that was second to none. I think I know what the Wind beneath his wings was now.......
Oprah wants to talk to him but no crying