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[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago (5 children)

If American, use sports related analogies. About 2/3 of a football field.

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Actually it's pretty much exactly the main play area of a football field, minus 5 yards on either side, or 10 yards on one side(acre in red, association football field in blue): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AAcre_superimposed_over_football_fields.svg

The unit apparently represents the approximate area of land that one person with a team of oxen could plow in a single day.

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Funny enough "about 2/3 the size of a football field" works about as well for places that use that word for soccer too

A FIFA standard field is 1.764 acres (off by 17.6%) and an NFL standard field is 1.322 (off by 11.9%)

[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wait, you're telling me a football field is approximately one football field in size?

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Association football fields actually have some flexibility in dimensions (less so for international play), so the 110x50 meter dimension of an NFL field would actually work for soccer

Another fun fact: the rules allow the goal lines to be a maximum of 90m, and the touch lines to be a minimum of 90m, so theoretically a square field could be legal

Edit: source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_pitch

[–] neopenguin@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Came here for this. The whole field is ~1 1/3 acres, so if you think of the whole field as 4, 1/3 acre sections, an acre is ~ 3/4 of a football field.

[–] Zoidberg@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unless it comes from space. Then it's measures in Texas sizes.