Jet fans in New York, this stadium can happen if we contact our local representatives and ask them to support the project. Time is of the essence. If you want the Jets brought home to our great city, act now.

It is too bad that Jeremy Olsham is the one who covered this story. Too bad, because Jeremy Olsham used to work for David Oats, the only "activist" quoted in opposition to the excellent proposal for a new stadium for the Jets in Flushing Meadow Park over a decaying fountain currently filled with beer cans and used condoms. Olsham quotes Oats without disclosing their prior relationship, which is as journalistically shabby is anything seen in a legit NY paper since the last time Olsham quoted Oats back in 2004. I realize this is the New York Post, but it is a newspaper, and Olsham really should get a good spanking from his editors for such tawdry writing.

JETS EYE LANDING AT '64 WORLD'S FAIR SITE
By JEREMY OLSHAN

August 18, 2005 -- In a desperate play to escape lifetime exile in New Jersey, the Jets are huddling with the city to hammer out plans to build a new stadium over the remains of a massive fountain from the 1964 World's Fair.

The six-acre Fountain of the Planets, which once exploded in glorious pyrotechnic displays, is now a murky pool littered with plastic bottles and trash.

With the West Side stadium plan dead, and a deal for a shared stadium with the Giants at New Jersey's Meadowlands weeks away, team sources say the fountain site probably is the last, best hope to put the New York back in New York Jets.

Team president Jay Cross accepted an invitation to meet with Queens Borough President Helen Marshall next week to discuss the plan.

As talk of staying in New Jersey intensifies, fans have besieged team officials with e-mails, pleading with them to find another way.

"It's conceivable a plan could be worked out in time," said Matthew Higgins, team vice president. "But it's going to require a great deal of urgency."

Located on the eastern end of Flushing Meadows, right off the Van Wyck Expressway, the proposed open-air stadium would be within field goal range of the Unisphere, Shea Stadium and the National Tennis Center.

The walk to parking lots and mass transit would be substantially longer than from Shea, and the Jets would once again be in the flight path of La Guardia's planes.

Marshall said she's willing to give the team the parkland, as long as the Jets agree to replace the lost acreage, which would likely include several new soccer fields as well as the fountain.

"She'd also expect new amenities to be added to the park, and others to be improved," spokesman Dan Andrews said.

Willets Point, the 47 acres of salvage yards near Shea — where many expected the Jets to look — is not workable, teams sources say, because the city would not have enough time to relocate the 150 business there and complete the necessary environmental work.

But some Queens activists, even longtime proponents of bringing the Jets home, disagree.

Although he railed against the West Side stadium in favor of Willets Point, David Oats, chairman of the Queens Olympic Committee, said the Jets new plan is equally unworkable.

"We're immensely outraged that the plan to return the Jets does not include a renewal of Willets Point and instead calls for destroying an historic and beautiful area," Oats said.