The Future

We have received many emails over the past few days asking the same thing- what now?

Please know that we are not going anyplace, as of now, because the Jets still seem determined to come back to New York in a stadium built on Manhattan's West Side, with or without state moneys for the project.

The roadblocks in front of them are daunting, to say the least, but not impossible, if they take them one step at a time.

First, next week is the week we will be hearing opening arguments from David Boise for the Jets in their anti-trust suit against Cablevision. Next comes the acquisition of the site itself.

The idea of the Jets going ahead without state money is tantalizing. The opposition to the stadium used the the funding aspects of the plan as a club to bludgeon the project. Take that weapon away and their true motivation is revealed in all its ugliness- selfishness and greed.

In Charles V. Bagli's article in The Times on June 8, he reports that one of the first phone calls Jimmie Dolan made in the hour after Sheldon Silver's rejection of the stadium plan was to Donald Trump, followed at some point within the next 16 hours, one can surmise, by a phone call, most likely made by one of Dolan's minions, to Mr. Bagli. The purpose of both phone calls is obvious: It is in Jimmie Dolan's best interest to keep the lie that he desires to build a Shangri La on the Hudson alive, until the Jets deal with the MTA is dead.

He knows the war isn't over.

The NYC2012 Olympics are dead. A stadium on the West Side of Manhattan, if it was to happen, is now several more years off. The Jets will be in New Jersey at least two or three years past the expiration of their current lease in 2008.

There are God knows how many hurdles and hoops to get through.

If and when it becomes apparent that the West Side Stadium is truly dead, we will acknowledge it here.

But, as of now, it remains alive, and where there is life, there is hope.