At 14:54 -0400 02/06/23, kilopascal wrote: >Also, football (soccer) may be played on a 100 m field in most cases, but >the rules allow for it to be played on a field varying from 90 m to 120 m >and from 45 m to 90 m wide. So, an American football field can be used to >play standard football and still be within the required specifications of >the field. I'm sure if football ever becomes popular in the US, like >American football, basketball, baseball, etc., the Americans will play it >with an FFU bias. Football will not metricate America.
Certainly not, especially because football fields dimensions are not metric! Just consider the goals: FIFA specifies their dimensions as 7.32 m wide and 2.44 m high. Which are exactly 8 yards and 8 feet... See http://a1801.g.akamai.net/f/1801/2004/3d/www.fifa.com/fifa/pub/lotg/Laws01en1-39.pdf Louis
