As the NFL packs out of town, with their self-proclaimed all-American extravaganza, we should say good riddance, and make sure they don’t come back with their big money, big everything, big game.

Because you, New Jersey taxpayer, are on the hook for the league’s big party for itself.

Consider these facts:

• The NFL pays nothing for security. It’s right there in the bid contract, which was obtained by The Star-Ledger. So who pays for the 700 state troopers who patrolled the game and circled overhead in two choppers? Or the New Jersey National Guard in their Humvees, who guarded the rail lines and stadium perimeter? Or the local police from a few dozen towns from New Milford to Millville (yes, there was a canine unit up from Cumberland County)? And this was just for game day. Add to that the security at the team hotels, Media Day in Newark, and the police escorts that the NFL required for teams, officials and media during Super Bowl week.

• The NFL bid contract forbids host states from collecting sales tax on ticket sales, parking, luxury box sales, etc. It keeps 100 percent of the revenue, so there was no state tax benefit to offset our costs.

• New Jersey hotels and restaurants "got almost no bounce compared to what they expected," said Mark Giangiulio, general manager of the Summit Hotel and chairman of the New Jersey Hotel and Lodging Association. No bounce means no hotel taxes, nobody but the regulars in the local restaurants. Again, not much revenue to offset costs.

• New Jersey’s NFL-designated host cities got no support for their celebrations. Secaucus and East Rutherford threw their own "non-sanctioned" parties. Good for them. Places like Montclair and Rutherford didn’t bother.

• The NFL transportation plan all but forced tourists to New York. There were only four New Jersey FanExpress sites offering $51 bus ride to the game and they quickly sold out. Why? With 2,200 available hotel rooms in Harmon Meadows, the FanExpress only had four buses running.

• The NFL made driving to the game almost impossible. One source very familiar with Super Bowl transportation plan said there at least 2,500 available private property parking spaces within walking distance of the stadium, but the league banned pedestrian traffic and passed on purchasing the additional parking.

So what we got were the transportation headaches. Especially, the long, winding tortuous road home, where about 32,000 fans overwhelmed NJ Transit, with some waiting as long as three hours to board a train to Secaucus.

Ray Araujo, who spent $4,000 for Super tickets, flew in from Seattle, and dropped "a good hunk of change" in Manhattan, blames New Jersey for only bad Super Bowl memory: waiting for the train.

"I think this is a shameful mess," Araujo said, who waited for 2½ hours to leave the game.

"They could have staggered the ticket times, and created a comfortable place to wait. There was no organized line. To think, I came across the country for this. New Jersey did a terrible job planning."

"I hope they never have another Super Bowl in New Jersey," said John Stewart of Seattle, who also stayed in Manhattan.

And in those statements, lie the plain, awful truth about this New York/New Jersey Super Bowl. They got the tourist dollars, the celebs, the parties; we got the bad rep. We got the security lines, the transit crush, the exit traffic.

We got the bad taste left in people’s mouth.

And if that’s not enough to make you angry, here’s this:

With their military flyovers, stars and stripes electronic banners and armed forces color guards, the NFL constantly wraps itself in the American flag.

But as a nonprofit corporation, they pay no federal taxes. Nothing for defense. Nothing for veterans’ benefits. Each year around Veterans Day, they run a Salute to Service program, which involves merchandising and donation dollars for points scored in that weekend’s games. In 2013, the program yielded $800,000 to three military foundations. This year, the total was $455,700.

Let’s put that in perspective: The cost of each of the 109 luxury boxes the league sold at MetLife for Sunday game was $400,000. Do the math. That’s $43,600,000, for a sliver of the stadium.

Imagine the whole take. All for themselves.

The NFL did not respond to an email request for interview.

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