Fans at this weekend’s Jets and Giants games will notice something missing from the end zones: color.
For the first time in MetLife Stadium’s seven-year history, the teams will be aiming to reach — or defend — blank end zones, with nothing but nine white, diagonal lines to decorate an area otherwise the same generic green as the rest of the field.
The unprecedented plan is the result of two factors:
The first is the fastest Jets-to-Giants changeover stadium staff ever has had to pull off, from an 8:25 p.m. Dolphins-Jets game on Saturday to a 1 p.