March 16, 2005

Silly season

Okay, stadium-shenanigan fans, time for a current-events quiz. Which of the following New York Jets stadium news stories is too ridiculous to be true:

• The NFL has scheduled a vote next week to grant the 2010 Super Bowl to New York if a new Jets stadium is built - the same day as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's deadline for bids for the proposed stadium site.
• The Jets have sued Cablevision for refusing to run pro-stadium ads on their cable systems, saying this violates the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
• The Jets have offered to buy Giants Stadium from the state of New Jersey, as a fallback plan should their Manhattan stadium plans fall through.

And the answer is: None of the above! All of these, remarkably, are true (though Jets execs deny the buying-Giants-Stadium one). With just two weeks before the MTA board vote that could either kill the Jets stadium or keep it on life support, expect even sillier headlines in the days to come - my money's on "Jets promise troops will come home from Iraq if stadium is approved."