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MetLife globe is 'flaky' idea

The Jets' Joe McKnight and the Giants' David

The Jets' Joe McKnight and the Giants' David Wilson talk about the 2014 Super Bowl, and have a snowball fight in the new 25-foot snow globe at Metlife Stadium, which Metlife created to celebrate its second year as the naming rights sponsor and to start the countdown to next year's big game. Video courtesy of Metlife PR (Jan. 31, 2013) (January 31, 2013 5:01 PM)

Dressing up notoriously drab MetLife Stadium will be among the challenges Super Bowl XLVIII organizers face, but they are off to a good start with an early gimmick that actually looks pretty cool – literally and figuratively.

MetLife this week installed a 25-foot high “snow globe’’ outside the stadium, complete with real snow, as the Jets’ Joe McKnight and Giants’ David Wilson demonstrated...

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