On 2009/10/10, at 03:49 , Pierre Abbat wrote:
What if the field were set to 90 meters? (Disclaimer: I know
practically
nothing about football. I know what a field looks like and what a
ball looks
like. That's about it.)
Pierre
Dear Pierre,
If the football field was set to 90 metres then a first-down could be
reset to:
'the whole nine metres'!
However, like you, I know little about this type of football.
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