When an American writer or director wants to create a point of reference to convey the size of something large, he or she often goes for the football field. I've been noticing with increasing frequency lately sentences that end with the phrase "...which is the size of X football fields," (where X represents a number).
What does that say about American society? Are we all so interested in and familiar with football that such a thing really is the best point of comparison? Is this going to become a standard unit of measure? (If so, I live almost 40 football fields from where I work.)
And I can't help wondering what other cultures might use for similar size comparisons.
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