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Correction for the size of a Football field

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How big is 1,717,854.30 square kilometers?
It's about 300,000,000 times as big as a Football field
The size of a Football field is about 0.005351215104 square kilometers.
(American) (per NFL regulation)
Per NFL rules, a football field should measure 109.728 m (120 yards) long by 48.768 m wide, for a total area of 0.005351215104 square kilometers. Due to a blizzard, the first NFL playoff game in 1932 was held indoors in Chicago Stadium (it was also the first indoor game) on a field measuring just 55 m by 40.0 m, for a total area of 0.0022 square kilometers.
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