E-Boland & Gang Green

Ladies and gentlemen, your 2008 Flight Crew. Well, almost. Twenty-one of the 22 that will make up the team – the final member will be voted on by fans on newyorkjets.com starting tonight – were selected after the panel of judges disappeared for a little over an hour to tabulate votes. That waiting period Hofstra student Bianca Lupo said, made her feel “nauseous.”

Lupo [pictured above] felt much better when the judges returned, though not right away. To draw out the tension, Flight Crew director Denise Garvey read the names one by one and Lupo, a Long Island native (Baldwin) was one of the last six named.

“I saw a whole line of people [already called] and was really nervous,” Lupo said. “I just wanted to know the result at that point.”

Thanks again to Al Pereira, the Jets team photographer and a good sport all morning and afternoon, who has a complete photo gallery on newyorkjets.com. But back to Lupo, who just received her degree from Hofstra in exercise physiology. I thought she had an interesting first name, Bianca, and asked her to spell it for me to make sure I had it right.

She spelled it, then told me, “It means ‘white wolf’ in Italian. A little fun fact.”

Indeed.

Tomorrow is a golf day as I'll be playing in the Commerce Bank Championship Media Day at Eisenhower Park and the timing could not be better because I really need to unwind after today. The Jets have a charity golf outing Tuesday and with players and coaches involved, there should be some tidbits to be had there. And remember, minicamp starts this Thursday with Vernon Gholston arriving Friday.