How did a football field end up having 100 yards?

March 16, 2010 by admin · 5 Comments
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~!Goth Princess!~ asked:

I was watching Monday night football with my dad and step mom, eating Taco Bell, when i asked my dad,” How did a football field end up with 100 yards?” Well we didn’t know so i thought i could ask you people out there! So please help us! Thank you!

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5 Responses to “How did a football field end up having 100 yards?”
  1. WiLLT808 says:
    March 18, 2010 at 5:20 am

    im not sure i think thats just the formula of the game.Because theres two teams and theres two endzones, and 50 yards for each team to defend their endzone on their side. WiLLT808

  2. john says:
    March 21, 2010 at 1:26 am

    well, originally a football field was just 25 yards long, and kickers could make field goals from inside their own end zone. But then one day, there was a football player named Bob. Bob played running back and wide receiver. Bob’s team was usually the best team in the NFL, but Bob didn’t care. All he cared about were stats and glory. Bob wished that the field were longer so he could break free for longer big runs and catch longer deep bombs. Bob figured, if the field were 200 yards long, than he could easily get at least 500 yards rushing and receiving per game. So he went to Mr. NFL Rules Dude and asked him to make the field longer. But Mr. NFL Rules Dude said: “I will not make the field longer because a shorter field provides more excitement for the fans.” But Bob was stubborn, and would not take no for an answer. So Bob challenged Mr. NFL Rules Dude to a duel. (a Yu-Gi-Oh duel, not the one with guns, that would be too violent and bad for PR). But the duel did not go as planed. Before he knew it, Bob had only 2 life points left and Mr. NFL Rules Dude was about to attack his life points directly with his Big Dark Sword Warrior Monster. “I must trust in the heart of the cards” thought Bob as he dramatically pulled a card from his deck. Then he yelled “I ACTIVATE EPIC SUPER POWER SPELL MAGIC TRAP CARD!!!! Which destroys all your monsters and lets me summon BLUE EYES ULTIMATE DRAGON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” “BLUE EYES ULTIMATE DRAGON, ATTACKS YOUR LIFE POINTS DIRECTLY!!!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!”
    So Bob won the epic duel. and Mr. NFL Rules Dude was forced to make the field 200 yards.
    But then, as Bob was walking back home, he was abducted by aliens. Then he beat them all up and made them take him back to earth where he then destroyed their ship.
    But then, as bob was walking back home, he met Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris said “I just found out that you defeated Mr. NFL Rules Dude in an epic duel and now the NFL field is 200 yards long.”
    “That’s right replied Bob.”
    “Well good” said Chuck Norris, “I always felt that the field should be longer. But I kind of wanted it to just be 100 yards.”
    Bob was afraid of Chuck Norris’s awesomeness so he said “you know what, I think your right. Why don’t we compromise and make the field 150 yards?”
    Then Chuck Norris roundhouse-kicked Bob into a parallel dimension with 150 yard football fields because no one compromises with Chuck Norris. Then Chuck Norris crushed all the 200 yard football fields in the world until they were just 100 yards. And everybody lived happily ever after.
    The End

    EDIT: Sigh, you people are all wrong. the moral of this [true] story is that the answer to this question is the same answer to any question that has been asked on Yahoo answers and any question that has or will be asked ever: because Chuck Norris said so.
    Also, I have a prediction: everyone else who answered this question without including Chuck Norris’s name is the answer will soon all die from roundhouse-kick related injuries. john

  3. gosox43 says:
    March 21, 2010 at 5:34 am

    isnt it 120 yards? gosox43

  4. jack says:
    March 22, 2010 at 7:49 pm

    It is that distance because that was a reasonable distance where it wouldnt be too long but it isnt to short to drive down the field. jack

  5. injured rugger says:
    March 22, 2010 at 11:42 pm

    Came from rugby’s 100m field. Of course I don’t know why rugby’s 100m. It was probably just convenient. It’s a good length and easily divisible.
    Of course rugby has 22m lines which I cannot for the life of me explain (luckily not the question you asked). injured rugger

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