NFL Players Reveal Their Least-Favorite Stadium, and It Isn’t Close
When it comes to player experience in the NFL, the Jets and Giants get the worst of it.
At least that’s according to an anonymous player poll via The Athletic, which asked 85 current NFL players about their least-favorite stadium to play in. East Rutherford, New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium was the clear winner (or loser), garnering 18.4 percent of the vote.
That was well ahead of second-place finisher FedEx Field, home of the Washington Commanders. That stadium earned 13.9 percent of the vote.
Players’ biggest complaints were the turf and the fans. “The turf sucks and the whole place is lame,” one anonymous player said, while another said the “fans are horrible. Everything about that place is horrible.”
When it came to FedEx Field, which recently had plumbing issues that kept players from showering afterwards, players said the facilities are simply subpar. “Almost everything about [FedEx] is below the standard of what an NFL stadium should be,” one player said.
These were the five worst stadiums:
- New York Jets and Giants’ MetLife Stadium (18.4 percent)
- Washington Commanders’ FedEx Field (13.9 percent)
- Buffalo Bills’ Highmark Stadium (12.7 percent)
- Green Bay Packers’ Lambeau Field (7.6 percent)
- Oakland Raiders’ Oakland Coliseum (defunct) (2.3 percent)
And these were the best:
- Kansas City Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium (17.9 percent)
- Minnesota Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium (13.7 percent)
- Los Angeles Rams and Chargers’ SoFi Stadium (8.9 percent)
- Green Bay Packers’ Lambeau Field (8.3 percent)
- Seattle Seahawks’ Lumen Field (8.3 percent)
