Where did the term "Buffalo Chicken" come from?

Group: rec.food.cooking Date: Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 2:57pm From: Gravesend1
(Brooklyn1)
wrote:
I never understood this. There is absolutely no buffalo meat, no buffalo
hair, no buffalo parts, or anything else connected to buffalo in this
food.
Why do they call it this name?
Why were you brought into this world by Sicilian section?

Sheldon, why are you always such a putz????