Jets fans planning a farewell toast to Giants Stadium can lift their beers in the parking lot - just not in their seats.

The last regular-season game ever inside the 33-year-old stadium is an alcohol-free event, with no beer sales at all Sunday night, Jets officials announced.

Long-suffering fans wondered what the team hoped to accomplish with the beer ban.

"I don't think it makes a heckuva lot of sense," said George Esposito, 49, a die-hard Jets fan. "Everyone's already drinking in the parking lot.

"Maybe security should do their job instead of penalizing 70,000 people."

Jets fan John Kuefner, 29, said the ban was just plain wrong.

"Football and alcohol go together like peanut butter and jelly," the Long Island contractor said Thursday in Penn Station.

That said, he admitted there was some cause for the ban. "Jets fans have proven themselves very unclassy."

He's got a point. The last game of the Jets' 2005 season was declared alcohol-free after a pair of stabbings in a stadium men's room.

And beer sales were banned after halftime beginning in 1989, the season after Jets fans - during a one-sided "Monday Night Football" loss to the Bills - starting setting fires in the stands.



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