Convert the length of an American football field to meters

Explanation

From this page you can convert the length of an American football field to meters (or aff to m) simply, by using the application above.

In case you are wondering, to convert from the length of an American football field to meters you need to multiply by 109.728. This factor is calculated using the respective definitions of the two units you can find below.

Formula

1 aff=109.728 m

American football fields (length)aff

dimension	length
symbol	aff

This unit represents the length of an American football field (aff) as defined by the official NFL rulebook.

The American football field is the playing field for American or gridiron football.

The field is a rectangle 160-feet-wide with a 300-feet-long field of play surrounded on both sides by a 30-feet-wide end zone.

Every year the best team of the NFC and AFC face each other in the Super Bowl, one of the world's most watched sporting events.

Value

The American football field is 360 feet long including both end zones. ^[source]

Equivalences

One American football field length is equivalent to:

metersm

dimension	length
system	International system of units (SI)
symbol	m

The meter (m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units.

Definition of the meter

It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the speed of light in vacuum c to be 299792458 when expressed in the unit m s^–1, where the second is defined in terms of the caesium frequency ∆ν_Cs.

Definition from the BIPM: Unit of length

In layman's terms, one meter is the distance traveled by light in 1/299 792 458 of a second.

Equivalences

One meter is equivalent to:

Metric length units

femtometer	fm	0.000 000 000 000 001
picometer	pm	0.000 000 000 001
nanometer	nm	0.000 000 001
micrometer	µm	0.000 001
millimeter	mm	0.001
centimeter	cm	0.01
decimeter	dm	0.1
meter	m	1
dekameter	dam	10
hectometer	hm	100
kilometer	km	1000
megameter	Mm	1 000 000
gigameter	Gm	1 000 000 000
terameter	Tm	1 000 000 000 000
petameter	Pm	1 000 000 000 000 000
exameter	Em	1 000 000 000 000 000 000

The International System of Units

The International System of Units or SI (from the French Système international (d'unité)), also called metric system in the U.S., is a coherent system of units that was published 1960. It is official in nearly every country.

The General Conference on Weights and Measures (Conférence générale des poids et mesures) is tasked with overseeing the SI.