QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, December 22, 2011 Page 50
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Jets and Giants jolted by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor
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It’s debatable which local NFL team let their fans down more last Sunday. The Giants, coming off an emotional Dec. 11 victory over the Cowboys in Dallas, which bolted them into first place at the time, were as flat as a bottle of seltzer that had been left open for two weeks as they lost to the mediocre Washington Redskins 23-10. A few hours later the Jets were pounded 4519 in Philadelphia by an Eagles team that finally played like the Super Bowl contenders the experts thought that they would be before the 2011 season began. The Jets now have a record of 0-9 against the Eagles. The Giants will be the visiting team when they take on the Jets at their mutual home field in the Meadowlands on Christmas Eve. Both clubs are struggling to make it into the post-season and neither has much margin of error. To use reality TV terms, one of the teams will be fired or voted off the island with respect to playoff aspirations at game’s end. Giants defensive end Justin Tuck is always sought out by the media following a game because of his candor. Asked if the inevitable hyperbolic press coverage of the upcoming game will make it easier for him and his teammates to forget about last Sunday’s stinker, he quickly replied, “It shouldn’t, but it probably will help us forget about it.� You can bet that the Jets echo Tuck’s sentiment. I ran into Tuck again as I was leaving MetLife and asked him if it will be difficult to
tune out all the nonsensical quotes that always seem to come out of the respective headquarters of rival teams scheduled to meet in a big game — and which the sporting press inexorably laps up. “If I were a rookie, I would take it more seriously. Since I’m a veteran it’s easier to ignore it,� he said. These have not been the best of times for boxing. The sport has done little to create interest in fighters who aren’t Floyd Mayweather Jr. or Manny Pacquiao. It’s not advisable to hold your breath waiting for those two to ever square off in the ring. All too often pugilists whom only die-hard boxing fans have ever heard of wind up headlining cable pay-per-view events. But Showtime deserves credit for having one of the best fights of the year on its main channel as American Andre Ward held off England’s Carl Froch in a grueling 12-round fight for the middleweight title last Saturday night. The Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame pays tribute to the best in every facet of the business, ranging from sportscasters to engineers to cameramen to executives. Among those honored at a ceremony last week were longtime NBC Sports CEO Dick Ebersol, NFL Films President Steve Sabol, and, posthumously, broadcasting legend Jack Buck. Jack’s son, Joe, the main voice of Fox Sports, gave a moving speech for his dad, who died in 2003. Whitestone native Mike Baxter, who played for the Mets in September, signed a minor league contract with them last week and will Q try to make the team in spring training.
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You couldn’t start the holiday season from the 1930s through the 1970s in Queens without stopping by one of the borough’s most beloved bakeries — Shelley’s Bake Shop. Irving and Anna Yanover of Jackson Heights opened their first bakery at 6217 Roosevelt Ave. in Woodside in 1929. Their attorney, Julius Oltarsh, suggested the names of three English Shelley’s Bake Shop covered up part of its sign poets — Shelley, Byron and Keats — during the legal fight over its name that ended in as possible business names because August 1947. This location had just opened up at they were distinguished but short. 81-04 37 Ave. in Jackson Heights. The Yanovers selected Shelley’s as the name. Successful, they built another in 1945 for $80,000. Ironically the new Shelley’s at 36-14 30 Ave. in Astoria in owners sued Yanover, the originator of the 1931; another one at 43-34 Main St. in name, over his use of it. While the case Flushing in 1933; and their biggest and was in litigation, the name, or at least part most famous at 94-06 63 Drive in Rego of it, had to be covered up on Yanover’s Park in 1940. The lines for their all-butter stores. In August 1947, shortly after he baked goods got so long in the Rego Park opened up another at 81-04 37 Ave. in store they had to take over a neighboring Jackson Heights, Yanover proved his case. shop and break down the wall to expand. It The Yanover-owned Shelley’s locations was still so busy you had to take a ticket all closed shortly after the death of Anna number from a machine to be served. Yanover in the 1970s. Singer’s lone bakery Yanover’s secretary/treasurer, Julius at 82-11 Roosevelt Ave. closed in 1990. Singer, had built a Shelley’s bakery for Shelley’s brings back good memories himself in 1939, at 82-11 Roosevelt Ave. in this holiday season for all the Queens peoQ Jackson Heights. He sold it at great profit ple who grew up with it.