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The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics ( NAIA ) is an athletic association that organizes college and university - level athletic programs among small to mid - size institutions , primarily across the United States but also outside the US . The NAIA began accepting members from Canada in 1972 , which made it the only international intercollegiate athletic association in North America until 2009 . ___MASK29___ there are three Canadian members . As of July 1 , 2016 , the NAIA reports having 246 member institutions . Brian Schaefering ( born August 20 , 1983 ) is an American football defensive end who is currently a free agent . He was signed by the Browns as an undrafted free agent in 2008 . He played college football at Lindenwood Lions and for the ___MASK58___ Fighting Illini . Schaefering has also been a member of the ___MASK63___ Jets , Cleveland Browns , and the Dallas Cowboys . FAU Stadium is a college football stadium located at the north end of the main campus of ___MASK79___ ( FAU ) in Boca Raton , Florida . Opened in 2011 , it is home to the Florida Atlantic Owls football team and is intended to be the first part of FAU ' s multi - use development project , " Innovation Village ". The ___MASK63___ metropolitan area , also referred to as the Tri - State Area , includes the most populous city in the United States ( ___MASK63___ City ); Long Island and the Mid - and Lower Hudson Valley in the state of ___MASK63___ ; the five largest cities in New Jersey ( Newark  the largest city in New Jersey  Jersey City , Paterson , Elizabeth , and Edison ) and their vicinities ; six of the seven largest cities in Connecticut ( Bridgeport  the largest city in Connecticut  New Haven , Stamford , Waterbury , Norwalk , and Danbury ) and their vicinities ; and five counties in northeastern Pennsylvania . FirstEnergy Corporation is a diversified energy company headquartered in Akron , Ohio . Its subsidiaries and affiliates are involved in the generation , transmission , and distribution of electricity , as well as energy management and other energy - related services . Its ten electric utility operating companies comprise the United States ' largest investor - owned utility , based on serving 6 million customers within a area of Ohio , Pennsylvania , West Virginia , Virginia , Maryland , New Jersey and ___MASK63___ . Its generation subsidiaries control more than 23 , 000 megawatts of capacity , and its distribution lines span over 194 , 000 miles . In 2013 , FirstEnergy ranked 181 on the Fortune 500 list of the largest public corporations in America . The Fighting Illini are the intercollegiate athletic teams of the ___MASK39___ at Urbana  Champaign . The university offers 10 men ' s and 11 women ' s varsity sports . Papa John ' s Cardinal Stadium is a football stadium located in Louisville , Kentucky , United States , on the southern end of the campus of the ___MASK5___ . Debuting in 1998 , it serves as the home of the Louisville Cardinals football program . The official seating capacity in the quasi - horseshoe shaped facility was 42 , 000 through the 2008 season . An expansion project that started after the 2008 season was completed in time for the 2010 season has brought the official capacity to 55 , 000 . An additional expansion project aiming to close the open end of the horseshoe to add 10 , 000 additional seats was announced on August 28 , 2015 , with the goal of opening within 2 years . The ___MASK39___ at Urbana  Champaign , also known as U of I , ___MASK39___ , UIUC ( deprecated ), or simply Illinois , is a public research - intensive university in the U . S . state of Illinois . Founded in 1867 as a Land - grant institution in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana ( together known as Champaign - Urbana ), it is the flagship campus of the ___MASK100___ and a founding member of the Big Ten Conference . East Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County , New Jersey , United States . As of the 2010 United States Census , the borough ' s population was 8 , 913 , reflecting an increase of 197 (+ 2 . 3 %) from the 8 , 716 counted in the 2000 Census , which had in turn increased by 814 (+ 10 . 3 %) from the 7 , 902 counted in the 1990 Census . It is an inner - ring suburb of ___MASK63___ City , located west of Midtown Manhattan . The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland , Ohio . The Browns compete in the National Football League ( NFL ) as a member club of the American Football Conference ( AFC ) North division . The Browns play their home games at FirstEnergy Stadium , which opened in 1999 , with administrative offices and training facilities in Berea , Ohio . The Browns ' official colors are brown , orange and white . They are unique among the 32 member franchises of the NFL in that they do not have a logo on their helmets and are the only team named after a specific person , original coach Paul Brown . The ___MASK63___ Jets are a professional American football team located in the ___MASK63___ metropolitan area . The Jets compete in the National Football League ( NFL ) as a member club of the league ' s American Football Conference ( AFC ) East division . The team is headquartered in Florham Park , New Jersey . In a unique arrangement for the league , the Jets share MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford , New Jersey with the ___MASK63___ Giants . The franchise is legally and corporately registered as ___MASK63___ Jets , LLC . MetLife Stadium is an American sports stadium that is located in East Rutherford , New Jersey . It is part of the Meadowlands Sports Complex and serves as the home stadium for two National Football League ( NFL ) franchises : the ___MASK63___ Jets and the ___MASK63___ Giants . The stadium is owned by the MetLife Stadium Company , a joint venture of the Giants and Jets , who jointly built the stadium using private funds on land owned by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority . The stadium opened as New Meadowlands Stadium in 2010 . In 2011 , MetLife , an insurance company based in ___MASK63___ City , acquired the naming rights to the stadium . At a construction cost of approximately $ 1 . 6 billion , it is the most expensive stadium ever built and is the second - largest stadium in the NFL in terms of seating capacity . ___MASK18___ is a private , coeducational , liberal arts university located in Saint Charles , Missouri , United States . Founded in 1827 by George Champlin Sibley and Mary Easton Sibley as The Lindenwood School for Girls , it is the second - oldest higher - education institution west of the Mississippi River and since 1990 , the fastest - growing university in the Midwest . The Lindenwood Lions and Lady Lions are the intercollegiate athletic teams of ___MASK18___ , located in St . Charles , Missouri . The school is primarily a member of the NCAA Division II , although women ' s ice hockey and gymnastics and men ' s volleyball compete in NCAA Division I . The Lions joined the NCAA and the Mid - America Intercollegiate Athletics Association ( MIAA ) in the summer of 2013 , after completing the transition process from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics ( NAIA ) and the Heart of America Athletic Conference ( HAAC ). In addition to the 27 NCAA sports teams administered by the ___MASK18___ Department of Athletics , the ___MASK18___ Student Life Sports Department administers 21 additional non - NCAA sports . History . Even after the emergence of the professional National Football League ( NFL ), college football remained extremely popular throughout the U . S . Although the college game has a much larger margin for talent than its pro counterpart , the sheer number of fans following major colleges provides a financial equalizer for the game , with Division I programs  the highest level  playing in huge stadiums , six of which have seating capacity exceeding 100 , 000 . In many cases , college stadiums employ bench - style seating , as opposed to individual seats with backs and arm rests . This allows them to seat more fans in a given amount of space than the typical professional stadium , which tends to have more features and comforts for fans . ( Only two stadiums owned by U . S . colleges or universities  Papa John ' s Cardinal Stadium at the ___MASK5___ and FAU Stadium at Florida Atlantic University  consist entirely of chairback seating .) Berea is a city in Cuyahoga County in the U . S . state of Ohio and is a western suburb of Cleveland . The population was 19 , 093 at the 2010 census . Berea is home to ___MASK92___ , as well as the training facility for the Cleveland Browns and the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds . The ___MASK63___ Giants are a professional American football team located in the ___MASK63___ metropolitan area . The Giants compete in the National Football League ( NFL ) as a member club of the league ' s National Football Conference ( NFC ) East division . The team plays its home games in East Rutherford , New Jersey , at MetLife Stadium , which it shares with the ___MASK63___ Jets in a unique arrangement . The Giants hold their summer training camp at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center at the Meadowlands Sports Complex .