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> it's a large thing we've all stood on Have we? Is it really that common if you aren't a player/cheerleader? I have stood on an American football field only o
by autoexec 4y ago
> it's a large thing we've all stood on
Have we? Is it really that common if you aren't a player/cheerleader? I have stood on an American football field only once and that's because I was helping out a friend capture audio of the game. I've certainly seen them on TV, but that doesn't really give a great sense of distance. I've seen the Statue of Liberty on TV a lot and that's about a 100 yards too.
I think that people keep complaining about it because it's clearly a flawed way to measure something, but people still keep using it because we don't really have something better to replace it with. We just don't have enough things around us that are measured reliably and consistently I guess.
- cjonas 4y agoPretty sure just about every highschool in the developed world has a "football" field
- EdwardDiego 4y agoSure. But I never really just went and stood on one for funsies.
- autoexec 4y agoI'm glad it wasn't just me! Although maybe we both somehow missed out on a quintessential high school experience and all the cool kids were hanging out in the middle of a field for some reason.
- concordDance 4y agoWhich might be 50m long.
- collegeburner 4y agono, all football fields are 100 yards long. i think that comes in around 90 meters for y'all euros.
- lamontcg 4y agoDon't think we had a football field of either kind anywhere. The big sports were basketball and wrestling then baseball third (we had a baseball diamond). We had a 1/4 mile track for the runners. When they taught us soccer in PE class we played indoors on the basketball court.
- cjonas 4y agoI've only ever lived in "small town USA" so I guess I didn't consider what a privileged it was to have the space for a field. The current town that I live in (population 10000) has at least 3 or 4 fields. All publicly accessible by anyone for recreation (this probably is pretty uncommon these days with schools becoming more locked down)
- lamontcg 4y agoThis was a town of 10,000 surrounded by wilderness, though, the town just wasn't big into football.
- mauvehaus 4y agoConveniently, a 400m/quarter mile track of a conventional configuration circumscribes an area of roughly the size and shape of a football field :-) (Plus some buffer area all around, etc). In many places in Ohio (where I'm from) it's pretty standard for the 400m track to surround the football field and for the stands to do dual use. Source: too many years of marching band in HS.
- mrguyorama 4y agoIt's also roughly the same size as a high school soccer field so in my town that didn't have football but did have track and soccer, it's still a relatable measurement.
- lamontcg 4y agoI just looked up Google Maps of my old HS and inside the 400m track there are now both football lines + uprights and soccer lines and goals. Those weren't there when I was in HS.
- mastersummoner 4y agoAmerican here from a very large city. Mine did not, and even if it did I can almost guarantee you I'd never have stepped foot on it regardless.