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Sauce sauce: Jets' Sauce Gardner, Buffalo Wild Wings cook up tasty partnership


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Sauce making sauce. Sounds like a perfect pairing, doesn't it? Well, that's exactly what New York Jets CB Sauce Gardner is doing.

Gardner will partner with Buffalo Wild Wings to create a smoky, sweet and spicy BBQ sauce aptly named "Sauce Sauce." It will debut Aug. 31.

What exactly will Sauce's sauce taste like?

"My sauce, it's a smoky, sweet and spicy barbecue," Gardner told Paste BN Sports’ Jets Wire. "I'm a huge barbecue guy, but I also like some type of spice, so I feel like it's the perfect ideal sauce."

Gardner said he grew up going to Buffalo Wild Wings with his high school teammates to watch football, and he considers their sauce the “best in the game.”

"I feel like it was just a natural combination," said Gardner, the fourth overall pick of the 2022 NFL draft. "They truly value sauce and I do as well.”

And so, Sauce will be cooking both on and off the field now.

Gardner will hold a "Signed with Sauce" event Sept. 1 at Buffalo Wild Wings in Wayne, N.J. (1400 Willowbrook Mall), according to a statement from Inspire Brands, Buffalo Wild Wings' parent company. 

Gardner will sign autographs in sauce at the event. Fans who show a Blazin' Rewards membership will be admitted between 7:30-9:30 p.m. ET.

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"Nothing says football like wings covered in your favorite sauce,” Gardner said in the statement. “I am excited to launch my own signature 'Sauce Sauce' just in time for the season kickoff.

"I have always known that everything is better with sauce.”