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Giants Stadium, located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, is home to the New York Giants and New York Jets football teams, as well as the Major League Soccer team the New York Red Bulls. It is the only stadium in the country to host two NFL teams, and it is the second-largest NFL stadium, behind the FedEx Field in Hyattsville, Maryland.The first game played at Giants Stadium was October 10, 1976, when the New York Giants played the Dallas Cowboys in front of a sell-out crowd of more than 76,000.Giants Stadium hosts more than 50 live events every year, and Billboard magazine named it the No. 1 top-grossing stadium worldwide in 2003. It has hosted FIFA World Cup soccer and Pope John Paul II's papal mass in addition to college football, international sporting events, and countless concerts.Giants Stadium is part of the Meadowlands Sports Complex, which includes the Meadowlands Racetrack and the Izod Center, formerly the Continental Airlines Arena.