This seems to be typical which I found in that article:

"Former football star and President Gerald Ford wanted America to begin looking 
at 100-yard-long football fields as 91.44 meters."

The disastrous soft metric approach once again! 

Han

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Pat Naughtin 
  To: U.S. Metric Association 
  Sent: Friday, 2011, April 01 10:47
  Subject: [USMA:50247] April fools day


  Dear All,


  I don't think tjat this is an April Fools Day joke -- but it should be.


  
http://www.lvrj.com/news/assembly-nixes-council-on-metric-system-119026244.html 


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