Originally Posted by who

Haha that's even worse then! surely they could say 1,100,000 yards long instead of '11,000' football fields' ...

Oh, anyway they are talking about 'size' in general, so I suppose they mean area. But again, do they mean surface area or entire area? What's the area of a football field anyway?

And when something is measured as say ten football fields, do they mean the playing area or the entire field? The stadium?

It's so confusing...