• underwire212
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    If American, use sports related analogies. About 2/3 of a football field.

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      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%)

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

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          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

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      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.

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