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Get Met. It really pays — especially for the Jets and Giants.

The insurance giant is close to wrapping up a deal to be the overarching naming-rights sponsor at the teams’ year-old New Meadowlands Stadium for upward of $17 million a year, according to a report.

MetLife already pays about $8 million a year as one of four smaller “cornerstones” at the stadium. The insurer is in talks to upgrade to a full-blown, 20-year naming rights deal in the range of $17 million to $18 million a year, according to Sports Business Journal.

The deal means the company would be able to float its two blimps — “Snoopy One” and “Snoopy Two” featuring its Peanuts comic-strip mascot — around the state-of-the art venue and christen it MetLife Stadium, among other marketing perks.

A showcase marquee featuring two storied sports franchises in the largest media market, the stadium was supposed to fetch a record amount — more than $30 million a year — for its naming-rights deal before the economy tanked.

The asking price dropped below $20 million as the stalled search for a sponsor dragged on until the Jets and Giants scored a major coup last year with a winning bid to host the 2014 Super Bowl.

MetLife and the Meadowlands stadium had no comment.

“It’s a fair price, and MetLife will get exclusive rights to sell the stadium every kind of insurance product. Then there’s financial services, too,” said sports marketing expert Rob Tilliss, founder of Inner Circle Sports.

In 2008, German insurer Allianz was close to buying the naming rights but the deal collapsed following media reports about Allianz’s past ties with Nazi Germany.

MetLife, the world’s largest life insurer, is currently snapping up naming rights in many of the 60 counties where it operates.

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