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It only occurred to me recently that when people compare something to the length of a football field, they are probably talking about American Football. I had always just assumed (without thinking about it) it was the length of an Australian Rules Football field, which can be almost 70% longer!

It must be about time we all just used metres and grams?

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Practically no one would ever be talking about Australian Rules Football (outside of the handful of countries where that's popular, of course), although presumably outside of the US they'd often be talking about soccer.

Fortunately, difference in length of an american football field and FIFA recommended soccer field is only 5 meters, and basically can be rounded to 100 m.

It's big (well, was big) in the "Americans react to weird stuff elsewhere" genre.

Lot's of US wannabe sports youtube influencers react to Gaelic football, soccer, and Aussie Rules.

Close to practically no one, but they do fall outside of the regular AFL fan domain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJo199LD0Fk

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