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To: RegulatorCountry

Instead of first and 10, in football, it will be first down and 9.144 meters to go.


7 posted on 09/19/2017 4:08:45 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Instead of first and 10, in football, it will be first down and 9.144 meters to go.

No, it wouldn't. If sane people were to "metricize" football, the gridiron would be lengthened to 100m.

98 posted on 09/19/2017 6:21:12 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Years ago when the US tried (and failed) so make the metric system socially acceptable, Saturday Night Live ran a fake commercial introducing the Decibet - a metric alphabet with only 10 letters. Here is one of them:


100 posted on 09/19/2017 6:27:13 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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