The DBs began tonight’s practice at Hofstra by eating a few cheeseburgers on the sideline. Strange, but true. The funny part was that they had sent rookie DB Bo Smith to get the aforementioned cheeseburgers from a nearby fast food joint, unaware that practice had been moved up from 6:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. Oops. He barely made it back.
Apparently Mark Sanchez got wind of the cheeseburgers and requested one. Outside linebackers coach Jeff Weeks snagged one and put it in his pocket. Last I checked, it was 30 minutes after the end of practice, Sanchez was still signing autographs and Weeks was loitering around nearby, the cheeseburger tucked safely in his pocket. As Weeks said with a wink, “You gotta take care of the franchise quarterback.”
– Lisa Zimmerman, TheJetsBlog.com.
OK, so first of all, since the Jets were at Hofstra yesterday I’m left to speculate where those cheeseburgers came from. There’s a McDonald’s right there — the one that used to be a Roy Rogers — but I feel like Lisa would have mentioned if they were McDonald’s cheeseburgers. Maybe Checkers? Checkers would be a decent choice.
If they were smart, of course, they’d have eschewed cheeseburgers and picked from one of the myriad fast-food fried-chicken places along Hempstead Turnpike. It’s a mecca. At last count there were something like seven of them within a half mile. Sadly, last I heard the Bojangles became a KFC, but Wings N’ Things still stands proudly at the start of what my friends always called The Chicken Strip.
Anyway, one of the most endearing things about Sanchez is obviously his appreciation for lowbrow cuisine. The way he playfully, harmlessly messed with the guy answering the phone at Domino’s in the first episode of Hard Knocks was priceless, plus he wears a Taco Bell hat, eats hot dogs on the sideline during games, and requests cheeseburgers of his defensive backs. What a stud.
Perhaps he was just ordering out for some General Tso’s chicken:
Tedquarters 
How is it possible that there exist The Chicken Strip in L.I. but I can’t get fried chicken worth a damn in Hell’s Kitchen? Thai food, yes. Good fried chicken, no. Depressing.
Hell yeah Won Dee Siam.
Awesome. If you haven’t, check out Pam Real Thai (the one on 49th) as well. Love the Duck Chili Sauce.
There’s a White Castle nearby as well. Can’t even begin to imagine how many sliders your average lineman can eat.
I think the Bojengals you are refering to is now a Popeyes. I work about half a mile from hofstra and I blame Hempstead Tpke for the weight I’ve put on since I started this job. My guess is it would have to be the McDonalds that’s right there though.
I believe that Popeye’s has always been a Popeye’s — the freestanding one, right?. The Bojangles in question was in a strip of stores on the south side of the street, west of the Popeye’s, in what at least once used to be the same store as a Taco Bell and a Pizza Hut. I think maybe the whole strip mall burned down though, but don’t quote me on that.
Right, the one across from the checkers as you get off front street. It’s still there, I think it’s a Taco Bell express now.
Everytime you post that picture, it makes me realize that if this QB thing doesn’t work out, Sanchez probably has a good future making porno movies.
Ted it is called the “chicken district”. There is also a Kennedy fried chicken in the district.
Sullivan, I was dining out on the Chicken Strip while you were still in short pants. You probably don’t even remember the Bojangles.
Wait, wait, wait.
They have Bojangles on Long Island? This is a phenomenon I was previously unaware of. Pretty much any time I met anyone when I came down to North Carolina three years ago, there was maybe any 80% chance that within the first five minutes of our conversation, the other party would say something either insinuating or outright telling me I had yet to truly live because I hadn’t ever had something called a “Bo-berry biscuit”.
I wish I had been privy to this information earlier, so I could have been known as something other than “The Yankee Who Doesn’t Know About Bojangles” my freshman year.
For what it’s worth, I think Bojangles is a decent, but criminally overrated dining alternative in the event that there isn’t a Chick-fil-A nearby.
They had Bojangles on Long Island.