in terms of football fields?

that's a good question

I remember hearing on CNN, MSNBC etc that the 'Freedom Tower" is xfootball fields tall, or that an aircraft carrier is xfootball fields long etc etc.

a "football field" is a lot easier to visualize than 300 feet.

(But, are we including the end zones?)

to Canadians who watch CFL. But I don't watch either, so I'd appreciate a reporter just saying 300'. (no need to convert it into metres either.)

a football field. Yes I know a football field is 300 ft. But if someone say to me, it's 150 ft, I just automatically think oh, half a football field. Or if someone says 30 yds, I think of the 5 yard stripes on a FB field. Maybe it's because in my youth as a member of the marching band, I marched up and down many a football field.

I measure things in yards, feet, meters, light years and parsecs.

Wolf

and feet. Football fields are merely something for me (as a fan) to spend my money to sit at while watching my hometown team get its ass handed to it on a regular basis.

The area of one acre (red) superposed on an
American football field (green) and
association football (soccer) pitch (blue).

but most everybody understands what a football field is in the US.

ETA - I think way back in the dark ages when I went to school an acre was measured in rods [WTF]. It was something like 16 rods X 12 rods. I have also heard it described as the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plow in a day (not sure what brand of plow they used....)

ergo - football field at least means something