Giants Stadium

Giants Stadium

The Meadowlands The Swamp
Address	50 Route 120
Location	East Rutherford, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°48′44″N 74°4′37″W / 40.81222°N 74.07694°W / 40.81222; -74.07694Coordinates: 40°48′44″N 74°4′37″W / 40.81222°N 74.07694°W / 40.81222; -74.07694
Owner	New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority
Operator	New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority
Capacity	80,242
Surface	AstroTurf (1976–1999) Grass (2000–2002) FieldTurf (2003–2009)
Construction
Broke ground	November 30, 1972
Opened	October 10, 1976
Closed	January 3, 2010 (final game)
Demolished	February 4, 2010 – August 10, 2010
Construction cost	US$78 million ($328 million in 2017 dollars)
Architect	Kivett and Myers Ewing Cole Erdman & Eubank Clauss & Nolan
General contractor	George A. Fuller Company
Tenants
New York Giants (NFL) (1976–2009) New York Cosmos (NASL) (1977–1984) Garden State Bowl (NCAA) (1978–1981) New Jersey Generals (USFL) (1983–1985) New York Jets (NFL) (1984–2009) New York/New Jersey Knights (WLAF) (1991–1992) Rutgers Scarlet Knights (NCAA) (1993) New York Red Bulls (MLS) (1996–2009) New York/New Jersey Hitmen (XFL) (2001) New York Sentinels (UFL) (2009)

Giants Stadium was a stadium located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in the Meadowlands Sports Complex. The venue was open from 1976 to 2010, and primarily hosted sporting events and concerts in its history. The maximum seating capacity was 80,242. The structure itself was 756 feet (230 m) long, 592 feet (180 m) wide and 144 feet (44 m) high from service level to the top of the seating bowl and 178 feet (54 m) high to the top of the south tower. The volume of the stadium was 64,500,000 cubic feet (1,830,000 m³). 13,500 tons of structural steel were used in the building process and 29,200 tons of concrete were poured. It was owned and operated by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA).

In the early 1970s the New York Giants, who at the time were sharing Yankee Stadium with the New York Yankees baseball team, began looking for a home of their own. The Giants struck a deal with the fledgling New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority in 1971 and ground broke on the construction of the new facility in 1972. The 1972 season was the Giants' last full season in Yankee Stadium, as the ballpark was closed for a massive reconstruction following the end of the Yankees' season. Since their new stadium would take a significant amount of time to finish, and they could not use their home facility due to the construction, the Giants moved out of state and played in New Haven, Connecticut at the Yale Bowl early in the 1973 season. After spending two years in New Haven, the Giants would return to New York for one final season in 1975 and shared Shea Stadium in Flushing, Queens with the Yankees, New York Mets, and New York Jets. The Giants finally moved into their new home on October 10, 1976.

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