{"id":183403,"date":"2025-07-05T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T13:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/183403\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T13:05:07","slug":"metlife-stadium-named-one-of-nfls-10-most-iconic-venues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/183403\/","title":{"rendered":"MetLife Stadium named one of NFL’s 10 most iconic venues"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ask any tenured New York Giants<\/a> or Jets<\/a> fan, they’ll tell you they prefer the old Giants Stadium over its successor, MetLife Stadium, when it comes to viewing a football game.<\/p>\n

The old stadium may have had fewer amenities, but it filled the bill when it came to focusing the crowd on the main reason they were in attendance: To enjoy a football game.<\/p>\n

That aside, the 80,000-plus-seat MetLife has become one of America’s top venues for both sports and entertainment events.<\/p>\n

In a recent ranking from FOX Sports, MetLife Stadium checked in as the 10th most “iconic” of all NFL stadiums<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium \u2014 which opened in 2010, replacing Giants Stadium \u2014 is home to both the Giants and the Jets. The multipurpose stadium with a capacity of over 82,500 is located at the Meadowlands Sports Complex, which is set to host the final of the 2026\u00a0FIFA World Cup, just outside New York City.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t help that the new Stadium has not had much in the way of high-profile games other than Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014.<\/p>\n

The Jets have yet to play a postseason game at MetLife, and the Giants have hosted just one – a 2011 Wild Card game against the Atlanta Falcons<\/a>, a 24-2 victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you ask any tenured New York Giants or Jets fan, they’ll tell you they prefer the old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[821,247,265,822,223,254,441,816,224,7,863,875,519,20842,2118,226,243,828,820,830,20231,17589,248,267,206,14285,56,255,88,6,35196,245,537,530,815,9,266,8138,776,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-183403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-arts","12":"tag-atlanta","13":"tag-atlanta-falcons","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-events","16":"tag-falcons","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-fox","19":"tag-fox-sports","20":"tag-giants","21":"tag-hub","22":"tag-jersey","23":"tag-jets","24":"tag-live","25":"tag-live-sporting-events","26":"tag-local","27":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","28":"tag-metlife","29":"tag-metlife-stadium","30":"tag-national","31":"tag-national-sports","32":"tag-new","33":"tag-new-jersey","34":"tag-new-york-giants","35":"tag-new-york-jets","36":"tag-news","37":"tag-nfl","38":"tag-nfl-hub","39":"tag-overall","40":"tag-overall-positive","41":"tag-positive","42":"tag-sporting","43":"tag-sports","44":"tag-sports-news","45":"tag-stadium","46":"tag-u0026","47":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}