Congratulations Pat.
It is my understanding that soccer fields do not have a standard size.
This makes it very easy to use metric dimensions entirely. Great!
Not so with US football fields which have a standard size. Performance
statistics are therefore based on the yard. Stadiums also are built with this
in mind.
Soccer fields could be standardized on rigid metric dimensions; however,
wouldn't there be problems when trying to fit a standardized metric field size
into various sized stadiums?
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: Pat Naughtin
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 4:33 AM
Subject: [USMA:45897] Geelong wins national football championship
Geelong wins national football championship
So what, I hear you chorus. Who cares that Geelong has won the title as the
Australian Rules football championship? However, this bragging is not the
purpose of this email.
The ground that the football game is played on is slightly variable in size
but it has all of its markings in metres. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Australian_football This means that the
sports commentators have continuously available references that they use to
describe each game. The metric influence is continuous, especially the two arcs
marked 50 metres from each goal. This has had the effect of making the
descriptions wholly metric.
I doubt that the transition to metric in Australian Rules Football would have
happened so quickly without the constant metric reference lines on every ground
built into the rules of the game itself. Perhaps there are some thoughts here
for other metrication transitions!
The game, today went for 100 minutes, but if you would like to get a flavor
of the action there is a 10 minute sample at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIOvSv9Q1Gk&feature=fvw Geelong are the only
team to wear horizontal stripes of navy blue and white – watch for the Gary
Ablett goal at 5:15.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
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