Officials hosting the region’s first “Mass Transit Super Bowl” spent Monday reassuring New Yorkers that Game Day at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey won’t be a commuter nightmare. But they didn’t necessarily help their case when one host introduced Woody Johnson, billionaire owner of the New York Jets, as the owner of the New York Giants — and with the Giants head honcho, Jonathan Tisch, sitting nearby.
Queuing up Johnson at a press conference in Secaucus, Super Bowl Host Committee President Al Kelly said, “Our last speaker is the owner of the New York Football Giants and the other co-chair of the New York/New Jersey Super Bowl Committee.”
As the room burst into laughter, he quickly corrected himself: “Jets! The Jets! The still-alive Jets!”
Johnson was laughing, too, as he stepped to the microphone. “Other than that,” he said of Kelly, “Al’s done an unbelievable job.”