08/11 – Jenn Sterger, a southern girl with flair, is taking her act to New York. In an effort to improve their gameday experience, the New York Jets have hired Sterger as the club’s gameday host. “It will be fun. It’s going to be sassy,” Jenn told me recently of her new role. “I plan on fully embracing my new role as a New Yorker.” In her new position, she will interview celebrities and will host a pregame “Keys to the Game” segment and the club’s pregame components up until player introductions. She’ll also play a role during TV timeouts and at halftime. “I thought it was a great project. I think it’s really cool that you guys are trying to integrate a new kind of media into your gameday experience,” she said. “It’s going to be fun and more interactive for fans. If it gets them in the seats earlier and out of the freezing parking lots a couple of beers earlier maybe, so be it. I promise I’ll put on as good a show as I possibly can.” Less than three years ago — Sept. 15, 2005, to be exact — an unknown ABC cameraman panned in Jenn’s direction and play-by-play man Brent Musburger offered a famous line: “Fifteen hundred red-blooded Americans just decided to apply to Florida State.” And right there, Jenn Sterger met the nation. Turns out she was more than just a pretty face, though — this Seminole majored in criminology and psychology. She was interested in law but FSU didn’t offer a prelaw major. So if Brent doesn’t spot JS, where is she now? “I’d probably be in law school actually trying to take Drew Rosenhaus’ job," she said of the South Florida superagent. "That’s what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a sports agent. First I wanted to be an attorney, and then I decided I didn’t want to argue with people for a living. Then I was like maybe if I was doing it for sports and it was something I was passionate about, I’d feel differently.” A few months back, E! Entertainment ran a program titled "20 Hottest Women of the Web." Jenn ranked No. 19 on the list. She’s turned into quite the entrepreneur the past couple of years. “I did a weekly advice column for CNN/SI and then I started doing their road trips. I was one of their pioneers in their Web video,” she explained. “It was really cool. Going to visit different campuses was like going to college without the homework. “I’m working on several projects now and a buddy of mine who’s in the industry was like, 'I really would like to have you in my movie.’ So I’ve actually shot one movie already [a scary flick, “The Tenant”] and then I’m getting ready to go out there to shoot another one in the next week or two. I’m also going to shoot another special for E.” But Jenn is a genuine football fan who has attended multiple Jets home games in the past few years. She grew up in Tampa and remembers going to Buccaneers games with her father when the Bucs weren’t experiencing all that much success. “I was a Buccaneers fan when they were the 'creamsicles,' ” she says with a playful laugh. “The Big Sombrero [otherwise known as Tampa Stadium] — that was a tin can of a stadium.” This Saturday, Jenn makes her off-Broadway debut at the Meadowlands. She’ll make the short drive over to take the microphone on what will be an exciting night as Brett Favre makes his first Jets home appearance. “I’m actually staying in Hoboken in New Jersey and I love my place,” she said. “I have the best view ever. You wake up to the Empire State Building and you’re just like ‘Good morning.’ ” Some might be interested in what outfit JS is going to wear, but I have no idea. It should come as no surprise that she’s got something creative up her sleeve. “Strictly customized,” she says with that trademark smile. “They gave me some really cool stuff to wear from the team store and whatnot, but I’ll fix it the way I like it.” I tell her that in years past we’ve had some late-arriving crowds. We’ve got a great fanbase, but they’re big tailgaters, traffic can be brutal, plus they’re building a beautiful New Jets Stadium so there’s construction everywhere. “It’s not just the Jets. Trust me,” she says of the arrivals. “Hell, if they can find parking, they’re happy. It’s New York in general, it’s not just Jets fans. I hope people take the time to check out the new entertainment that they bring in.” Jenn’s pumped for Jets football. The sassy southerner makes the jump to the pros this weekend. “I’m trying to become a little less southern, a little less gentle and a little more Jersey, I guess you could say. I’ll try my best,” she said. “People up here always tell me I’m too nice, so hopefully Jets fans can make me a little stronger. “Plus I look great in the green.”

EA: Jenn Sterger Set for 'Sassy' Jets Role

06/09 – To paraphrase Shakespeare, the seat's the thing. Tell me all you want about getting your bod into the area and into the stadium, but how will it be getting your head into the game? In a word, like never before. OK, that's three words, but you'll love it so much you'll lose count. Fans embraced the old Meadowlands layout, so we've replicated that comfortable bowl feeling, only we've made it better. You'll be immersed in football — the contest between the Green & White and the dastardly visitors in front of you, your senses awash in a dome of electricity generated by you and your fellow fans. Enhancing the experience, four huge, high-definition videoboards will pulse all around you, and if you never saw more than a small triangle of each replay from your seats under the overhang, those gamedays are over. Meanwhile, the state-of-the-art sound system will make you feel as if Fireman Ed's on your shoulders as you chant the chant — all together now — J! E! T! S! JETS! JETS! JETS! For those behind and around the goalposts, you'll be playing your own particular brand of zone defense. With general admission seats right down to the front row, the end zone will be a green wall of rabid fans. You've heard of the Dawg Pound and the Black Hole? Here's your opportunity to create the Green Mile, the Bermuda Triangle ... you'll come up with your own name. That is, if opposing offenses don't come up with something colorful first. A major component of a great seat is how easy it is to get to and from said seat on forays to those all-important way stations. Food and drink? You won't have to go hunting for a hot dog, with eight times the number of concession stands than the old venue. And porcelain facilities, the bane of many a Jets fan's gameday existence since dear old Shea? With three times as many restrooms, relief and a return to action are always just around the bend. Plus, with a little more elbow room in the twice-as-wide concourses, you might miss bumping into old friends. But on Jets gameday, that's a good thing.

YOUR SEAT: Awash in Sights and Sounds

06/09 – Before fans enter the New Jets Stadium for the first time — perhaps along that 50-yard line that extends from midfield out of the stadium to, well, infinity — they should savor the stroll. One sensation should be a sight for Jets fans' sore eyes: the color green. The tint will be seen everywhere outside the stadium, on the pillars and on the outside of the building and in the entrance that we modestly refer to as "the Great Hall." In this unprecedented joint venture by two American professional sports teams in the same league, when the Giants play their home games, the theme will be big and blue, and when the Jets come to play, the place will be bleeding green. Before you go too far into the structure, you might want to linger on the concourse. The 100,000-square-foot plaza area will be the home for many attractions and diversions: food, merchandise, an interactive skills challenge for kids — or maybe for the kid still in you — and outdoor platforms from which will emanate your favorite live pregame TV and radio broadcasts. Had your fill? Then saunter through the hall for another treat, a "Great Wall" that will measure 400 feet long and 40 feet high, be bathed in soft lighting —green before, during and after Jets games, remember? — and feature images paying homage to Jets and Titans greats of the past and present. Some will point out that the Jets won only one championship, Super Bowl III. But so what? You know how it is with families, and no one's going to say anything bad about yours. Joe Namath is the patriarch and he'll be followed by the images of Don Maynard, Weeb Ewbank, Joe Klecko, Curtis Martin, Winston Hill, Al Toon, Wesley Walker, Wayne Chrebet, Larry Grantham, Mark Gastineau, Marty Lyons, Kevin Mawae ... the list goes on. And if we missed naming your favorite Jet or Titan, there's a good bet he'll make us look bad by dancing across the Great Wall sometime soon. And needless to say, there are a bunch of players on this year's team that aspire to greatness, individually and for the team, trying to force that 1968 band of brothers to give them some prime real estate on the wall of fame. You may now proceed to your seat.

PREGAME: Enjoy the Hall, Feel the Green