⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey

December 22, 2024 - 12:10 PM
20°F / -7°C

Walkthrough (without narration) of the exterior and interior of MetLife Stadium, the home stadium of the New York Jets and New York Giants NFL teams and the site of the 2026 FIFA World Cup Final, during the New York Jets vs. Los Angeles Rams pre-game. Filmed with Google Pixel 7. (Neither my GoPro camera nor the stabilizer stick that I usually use for my walking videos were permitted to be brought inside the stadium, so I filmed the entirety of the walkthrough with my Google Pixel)

Highlights:
00:00 - Bud Light Gate, Meadowlands NJ Transit Railroad Station
01:36 - HCLTech Gate
04:15 - Verizon Gate
07:45 - MetLife Gate
09:24 - West Hall
11:27 - Jets Green Room, Moody's Commissioners Club
11:55 - Walking the 100 Level Concourse
23:41 - Modelo Cantina, walking up stairs to 300 Level
27:14 - View from Section 342
27:53 - Walking the 300 Level Concourse
29:37 - View from Section 333
32:59 - View from Section 321
36:02 - New York Jets starting lineup introductions

From Wikipedia:
"MetLife Stadium is an open-air multi-purpose stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States. It opened in 2010, replacing Giants Stadium, and serves as the home for the New York Giants and New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). It is also scheduled to host the final of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. At an approximate cost of $1.6 billion, it was the most expensive stadium built in the United States at the time of its completion.

MetLife Stadium is one of two NFL stadiums shared by two teams, the other is SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, home to the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers. Additionally, MetLife Stadium is the fifth building in the New York metropolitan area to be home to multiple teams from the same sports league, after the Polo Grounds, which was home to the baseball Giants and Yankees from 1913 to 1922, the third Madison Square Garden which hosted the NHL's Rangers and Americans from 1926 to 1942, Shea Stadium, which housed both the Mets and Yankees during the 1974 and 1975 seasons and both the Jets and Giants in 1975, and Giants Stadium, which hosted both the Giants and Jets from 1984 to 2009. MetLife Stadium hosted Super Bowl XLVIII and will host multiple matches during the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, including both finals. It is the largest stadium in New Jersey with a capacity of over 82,000.

As Giants Stadium approached 30 years of age, it was becoming one of the older stadiums in the NFL. The Jets, who had been the tenants to the Giants, were looking to have a proposed West Side Stadium built in Manhattan. Originally intended to be the 85,000-seat main stadium for New York's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics, it was designed to be downsized to 75,000 seats for the Jets. However, it would have required significant public funding; progress on the project was halted in 2005 due to opposition from a number of sources, including Cablevision, who owned the nearby Madison Square Garden at the time. The Giants then entered into a joint venture with the Jets to build a new stadium in which the two New York teams would be equal partners."