Pigskin Dispatch Podcast’s Darin Hayes and I discuss how football fields came to be 100 yards long and 160 feet wide. It mostly results from the Anglo-Saxons measuring their fields based on furlongs, and early 1600s system of measuring furlongs using chains, with a few twists and turns along the way.
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