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Calling it two football field would still work. Americans would think brown oblong ball field, everyone else would think black and white orb game. In in all cases they'd be thinking of essentially the same measurement.
Right?! It’s just so puzzling a choice.
That's exactly what the original comment said?
I think it was alluding to it, but stopped short of explicitly saying it. I felt it was worth explicitly saying.