stretching across more than 100 football fields.
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Actual, existing football fields? No. They mean area.
I guess no one can comprehend an acre, or square miles.
I calculate the area of 100 football fields as less than 1/2 mile by 1/2 mile.
Now if they mean football stadiums, the area is larger, but less well defined.
If the area stretched far enough to cover 100 scattered, existing football fields, then that WOULD be something.
But let's get real. Figuring it out, a 53.3 yard wide 120 yard long football field (including end zones), turns out to be exactly 1.3 acres. That means a hundred football field is about 130 acres, less than the size of a small farm. In 1900, a family could live from the income of a dairy farm of hand-milked cows, but not now since technology has taken over.
So, if that land was given over to use as a distribution center, how many families would it support? I'd say a 100 families would not overstate the value of employing the land for it. Or if it was developed into a residential zone of a half an acre per house including roadways, say 260 homes at $200,000 each, that would amount to over 50 million dollars of property.
That's not such a big sacrifice of a little farm for a big return, folks.
Putting it in proportion, that's not a big deal, folks.