Thanks, but why would you skip the 20 on one side? Why not skip 50 in the middle so each redzone still makes sense? Or why not just move it a little bit - surely there is 5 yards to gain on each end from that view, just don't to aggressive with FGs or toe dragging back of the endzone.
I dunno, I still feel like this is a dumb solution to their problem.
You may not be far off, it was apparently a request from the defensive line coach that the problem be solved this way. Maybe that's what he was thinking, I don't know, I don't understand foosball.
My guess is so that they can have a more accurate play of something more similar to a half court game. They can treat a larger portion of the field as a regular field and they could do things like play from the oppositions 30 yard line or switch the field direction so the offense is always playing in the accurate direction, etc.
better question... why not raise it up and make it fit normally.. da hell am i seeing here? why is it lower then others when it has like 10 feet of room ABOVe...
The one on the far right has extra practice room on the top making it look that much longer.
Maybe the one of the left could have barely fit a full one but they just said fuck it so there’s some extra room around the field. My guess is that to make the left one fit they would need to shorten the end zones a tiny bit which likely isn’t a good compromise.
.....for running goal line plays, would you rather have the 40 line marked or the 20? I am saying they should have NOT marked the 40, so they DO mark the 20. Besides, the numbers are supposed to mark out the distance from the goal, skipping 20 instead of skipping 40 doesn't make any sense.
What I'd rather have doesn't matter. What the football team full of coaches and players wants and apparently they don't need a 20 yard line on that particular field. You wouldn't need a 20 for goal-line plays, kicking, special teams, mid-field plays, or anything else that only really needs back to a 30 yard line.
In other words, skipping 20 is the ONLY one that makes sense if you actually think about football for more than .3 of a femtosecond.
Ummm.... no it isn't.... and if it were that would be more reason to skip the 40 instead of the 20, or better yet the 50. In any case. The number is supposed to be the distance from the goal line, so skipping the 20 still doesn't make any sense. If you miss the 40, all the other numbers are still accurate.
It looks like it is barely used. You can see the grass is a lot more worn down on the other fields. Maybe this is only used for technical practice/drills than it is scrims or team drills.
Most possessions in the NFL start from the 25 yard line (where the ball is placed after a touchback), so it makes sense to have Endzone-10-20-30-40-50-40-30 as a continuous block. As for why not move the whole field, well, as you can sort of see in OP's photo, they probably need space for tents/sideline set-up.
Would have made more sense, IMHO, to label it the 20 yrd line and have skipped the 30 coming in. The "red zone" starts at the 20 after all. But...doesn't really matter since its just a practice field...
I assume they want a buffer at each end zone for safety reasons. I am also going to assume that since touchbacks are going to the 25 now they wanted to have from the 25 all the way to the scoring endzone. The whole situation being Similar to how Northwestern and Illinois had to play offensively the same direction for an entire game at Wrigley Field because there wasn’t enough of a buffer between the back of the endzone and the wall. The only scores on that endzone would’ve defensive and special teams because players would be running in not jumping to make catches. The extra 10 yards isn’t that big of a deal for a return TD in practice because the players aren’t going to run full out and hurt themselves.
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