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Unlike Giants Stadium, MetLife Stadium can easily be reconfigured for the Giants or Jets within a matter of hours. [14] The louvers' total linear length is exactly 50,000 meters (50 kilometers) or 163,681 feet (31.1 miles). Front row 50 yard line seats are 46 feet (14 m) away from the sideline, which is the shortest distance of all NFL stadiums.
The NJSEA also provides in-house security, emergency medical services, and fire protection staff to the entire Meadowlands Sports Complex, including MetLife Stadium, the replacement for Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex built privately by the Jets and Giants, as they have done in the past at Giants Stadium.
In September 2010, MetLife Stadium, then known as New Meadowlands Stadium, opened for its first game. It was privately built and funded by the Jets and Giants. A commuter train line and a training center for the Giants also opened at the same time. MetLife bought the naming rights for the stadium and the entire complex in August 2011.
The forecast calls for the temperatures to be in the mid-30s on Saturday, with a low of 23 degrees as the expected 80,000+ fans file out of MetLife Stadium near midnight.
Dallas’s AT&T Stadium offered state-of-the-art facilities in a giant venue, but New York-New Jersey sold Fifa a vision of something greater How New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium won a fierce battle ...
MetLife Stadium can hold up to 82,500 fans, according to the facility’s website. Last year, Arsenal and Manchester United played a preseason match there in front of a soccer record crowd of ...
The stadium, known as MetLife Stadium, became the first in the history of the NFL to be jointly built by two franchises. [95] The stadium, which is illuminated in different colors depending on which team is hosting a game, opened in April 2010 and saw the Jets and Giants open the stadium together in a preseason exhibition game.
In 2010, MetLife Stadium opened, replacing Giants Stadium. The new stadium is a 50/50 partnership between the Giants and Jets, and while the stadium is owned by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority on paper, the two teams jointly built the stadium using private funds, and administer it jointly through New Meadowlands Stadium Corporation.