Cowboys at Giants, Plus the Yankees-Mets Subway Series: A New York Football-and-Baseball Weekend (2026)

The Yankees-Mets Subway Series. The Yankees host the Mets at Yankee Stadium from September 11 to 13, the same weekend the Cowboys play at the Giants at MetLife on Sunday, September 13. It is a marquee New York football-and-baseball weekend, but a cross-metro one: the Bronx ballpark and the New Jersey stadium are across the metro from each other, so plan it as a metro weekend, not a walk.

The Cowboys play one New York-area road game all season, at the Giants on September 13. It happens to land on a Subway Series weekend: the Yankees host the Mets from September 11 to 13. So a Week 1 road trip you were taking anyway comes with a marquee baseball rivalry attached.

Here is what the weekend of September 11 to 13 holds:

These are two separate events, and it is worth being clear about that.

The Cowboys-Giants game is the NFL anchor: an NFC East road game, the reason a traveling Cowboys fan is in New York that weekend.

The Subway Series is the baseball layer: the Yankees-Mets crosstown rivalry, the two New York teams meeting in interleague play. It is not quiet midweek filler; it is a draw in its own right, and it is what turns a football road trip into a full sports weekend.

This is where honesty matters. MetLife Stadium is in East Rutherford, New Jersey; Yankee Stadium is in the Bronx. They sit in different states, across the metro from each other, and you are not walking between them.

The workable shape is one New York base. Yankee Stadium is an in-city trip; MetLife is the cross-metro leg, out in the New Jersey Meadowlands. Treat it as a two-venue metro weekend, not a doubleheader you can stroll between, with the Sunday football date as the fixed anchor.

If you are already going to the Cowboys-Giants game, the Subway Series is the reason to make a weekend of it. You are in New York for a fixed football date, and the calendar hands you the Yankees-Mets rivalry on the same weekend. The cross-metro logistics are real, but so is the payoff: an NFC East road game and a Yankees-Mets series in one trip. Build the weekend around both.

Plan the weekend with the New York destination guide, check the Cowboys road-trip page and the Giants team page, or open the itinerary planner to price it.

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