This is big, and to me unexpected. The New York "state" panel that needed to vote unanimously to approve state funds for the Jets Stadium in Manhattan failed to do so!!

If a public stadium on Manhattan is truly dead, the savings to New York citizens would be substantial: $300 million in city money, $300 million in state money, and untold billions saved if NYC doesn't get the 2012 Olympics (which it seems Paris is likely to win). I will withhold my final victory dance for when the Jets announce that, like the Giants, they will pay for their own stadium.

Victories seem to be few and far between in the stadium mess - savor them when they occur, however shortlived they may be.