Long before he documented the Wing Bowl, the former WIP chicken wing-eating competition that drew thousands, filmmaker Pat Taggart lived it.
“My friend’s uncle got in as an eater one year, and he needed people in his entourage,” Taggart recalled. “His name was Ali Blaba. They were a family of butchers, so they put an actual real cow’s carcass over his head. And he laid on this platform and we carried him in.
“He was not memorable as an eater, but he certainly made a memorable entrance.”…