The New York Giants, to the surprise of no one, announced that they will employ PSL charges (Personal Seat Licenses) when they open their new stadium in 2010.

The stadium is being built in conjunction with the New York Jets, who will share it, and that team is expected to announce a similar plan in the coming weeks.

But Jets president Robert Wood Johnson IV, who apparently won the waiting game and saw the Giants go public first, has indicated he might deal in a bit of (very expensive) one-upsmanship and not apply the PSL tag to all the seats.

The new stadium, as yet unnamed, will seat 82,500.

The Giants' plan is to designate 90 percent of the new seats as the least expensive PSL, $1,000. ...More