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Metlife Stadium to have neutral end-zones thanks to DolfansNYC...not really

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 7:43 p.m. ET

Fansided, Brian Miller/FanSided via Phin Phanatic

This weekend there will be no JETS scrolled in the endzone when the Dolphins take on the Jets in primetime on Saturday night.

Many teams host multiple games each weekend and the Dolphins do it quite regularly with the Miami Hurricanes on Saturday and sometime Saturday night and then the Dolphins on Sunday. So it’s understandable that getting the field painted twice in one weekend isn’t exactly easy.

While the Jets host the Dolphins Saturday night the New York Giants host the Lions on Sunday at 1:00 and the stadium officials have decided there simply isn’t enough time to paint the field twice before the next game.

I call BS.

The reality to me is simple, the DolfansNYC group is once again taking over Metlife in their annual Metlife Takeover event and it’s more likely that the stadium officials are now realizing that there is simply so many Dolphins fans attending that it’s practically a home game for Miami. So instead of catering to Jets fans, they have opted to go neutral and blame it on the Giants.

Well that isn’t really true but it’s a helluva lot more fun to point the finger at DolfansNYC and their strong support of the team in New York than the simple fact the stadium crews didn’t want to work diligently over night in sub-freezing weather to write Giants.

Funny though, they could have done both actually and put the Jets in one end zone and the Giants on the other. Or simply wrote New York like the Dolphins do during Hurricane season when they simply put Miami in the end zones. Neutral colors would have worked fine.

Instead they opted for a copout.

When the Dolphins play the Jets on Saturday night you can bet you will hear the loud thundering cheers from the New York Dolphins faithful. And at some point, the announcers will comment on it as well. There just wont be any JETS stuff around the stadium, so that should be nice.