Today’s Journal News has our story about the newly instituted Personal Seat Licenses. The main points:

1. Being in the stadium just got a whole lot more expensive.

2. Being on the waiting list just got a whole lot more futile.

3. Consider your seat like New York City real estate, you will pay a premium and resell for a profit.

4. How much of a profit depends on how well the Giants perform. If Jeremy Shockey doesn’t show up for training camp, take it personally. He’s costing you money.

Mark asked a great question, and I thought it warranted a new post.

If you buy your PSL, do you have to resell it to the team?

John Mara says no. And Mark is right, the waiting list, with 130,000 people, becomes virtually meaningless in terms of season tickets, although you will have first dibs on season ticketholders selling single games through the Giants.

I talked to stadium expert Neil deMause, and he likens the arrangement to a co-op, where you pay a fee to own the space and when you move you resell it for what the market will bear. Seems that the bank accounts of the new stadium’s season ticket holders will be a lot bigger than the bank accounts of last season’s.

The Giants will be charging season ticket holders a one-time fee of at least $1,000 to keep those tickets once the team moves to the new stadium, currently being constructed in East Rutherford, N.J. for the 2010 season.

Since current season tickets start at $800 for the upper bowl, the fee, called a personal seat license in stadium lingo, amounts to a doubling of the average ticket price. For those with better seats, the PSL could be as much as $20,000.

“We have spent months exploring our various options regarding the financing of the construction of the new stadium,” said John Mara in a statement. “Given construction costs and NFL and lender requirements for paying down our debt, and after much thought and analysis, we decided this PSL program is necessary. All the net proceeds from the sale of PSLs will be used to fund construction of the new stadium.”

Although the Giants made the announcement of the surcharge today, the team will not yet release the projected cost of season tickets once the stadium is built. There are currently 130,000 people on the waiting list for Giants season tickets.

Any season ticket holders out there care to react?

Super Bowl Giants Day will be held at State Fair Meadowlands at Giants Stadium on June 28.

Part of the day will feature a behind the scenes tour of the Giants Stadium facilities, including the loocker room, field, and press box (I mean…who wouldn’t want to see the press box???)

There will be over 150 rides and attractions, free nightly entertianment, magic shows, daredevils, and a comedic hypnotist.

Log on to www.njfair.com or call 973-450-1073 for more information.

The Newark Star-Ledger reports that the Giants have signed Chris Snee to a six-year contract extension. The money would make Snee one of the top five right guards in the league in terms of salary.

At 6-foot-3 and 317 pounds, Snee has started 48 straight games, the last of which gave the Giants a Super Bowl victory. He was taken by the Giants in the second round of the 2004 draft out of Boston College.

The Star-Ledger cites an anonymous source, who told the paper the deal had not yet been signed and did not disclose an exact monetary figure.

In another report: Giants play-by-play announcer Bob Papa has been tapped to call NFL Network’s Thursday night games. Apparently this will not conflict with his Giants duties.

Hey everyone, Alex Myers here. I just got off a conference call regarding Michael Strahan joining Fox Sports and the former defensive end seems excited about his new situation.

From the Associated Press:

Backup quarterback Jared Lorenzen was waived by the New York Giants on Monday, a little more than a month before the Super Bowl champions open training camp.

The Giants also waived receiver Todd Lowber, long snapper Nick Leeson, defensive tackle Brian Soi and offensive lineman Jacobs Hobbs, all first-year players.

Lorenzen’s status has been a question mark since the Giants signed veteran David Carr as a free agent and drafted Andre Woodson, who, like Lorenzen, played at Kentucky. With Eli Manning and Anthony Wright also on the roster, the moves left the Giants with five quarterbacks. With the current 80-man training camp roster limit, there was no way the team was going to bring five quarterbacks to camp at the University at Albany.

Signed as a free agent in 2004, Lorenzen left the team after minicamp and did not return for personal reasons. The big left-hander rejoined the club in 2005 and spent the past three seasons as a seldom-used backup to Manning.

The Giants Super Bowl victory will be celebrated this Saturday at State Fair Meadowlands at Giant Stadium Fairgrounds in East Rutherford, N.J. Those who go can purchase a behind the scenes tour of the new Giants Stadium for $10. The money raised will go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The fair opens at 2 p.m. and closes at 2 a.m.

Running back Ahmad Bradshaw, 22, is in a Virginia jail for violating parole. Although what he did to violate parole hasn’t been reported, the original crime was for misdemeanor petty larceny in 2006, and he received two years of probation. Then a student at Marshall University, he entered a plea of guilty to stealing a video game system. USA Today broke the story.

His full resume also includes underage drinking, which got him kicked off the team at Virginia. This from the Giants:

“We are aware of the situation and have been in contact with Ahmad’s legal representative. This situation is not the result of any recent incident. It stems from an issue that occurred prior to Ahmad being drafted by the Giants. Beyond that, we have no further comment.”

The biggest question about the new stadium has finally been answered. Never mind possible cost overruns or whether the Giants have a chance at another ring—Giants and Jets fans will be drinking Budweiser as they watch it unfold at the new stadium at the Meadowlands. Anheuser-Busch joins MetLife as one of four major sponsors of the new stadium for the Jets and Giants, the construction of which fans can enjoy all season long. (When I was out there to cover the Giants this spring, I had the fun of finding where the ramp for the northbound New Jersey Turnpike was—a new path each time!)

The Bud sponsorship is reportedly worth $10-$15 million, and the fifth and final sponsor will pay $20 million for a package including naming rights. Oh, the suspense!