Buffalo Bills make good on thank-you gift, send wings to Bengals

Credit: DaytonDailyNews

The Buffalo Bills are making good on a promise they made Sunday, sending 1,440 chicken wings to the Cincinnati Bengals as a thank you for their last-minute win against Baltimore on Sunday, according to the Dayton Daily News. Cincinnati's come-from-behind 31-27 win sent the Bills into the playoffs for the first time since 1999.

The Bills announced the shipment Thursday evening in a tweet:

The Bills had thanked the Bengals on Twitter after Sunday’s games and promised to send some wings to Cincinnati.

>> Bills fans make more than $104K in donations to Dalton's foundation
The gesture came after Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton announced that more than $315,000 had been raised by his charitable foundation in the wake of the team's win over Baltimore. Fans had taken to celebrating the victory, and Dalton's game-winning touchdown pass to Tyler Boyd -- by donating to the foundation in increments of $17. The dollars represent each year of the Bills' playoff drought.

Fans also donated thousands of dollars to Boyd's cause, the Western Pennsylvania Youth Athletic Association, WPXI reported.

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