Inspired by 17776, I think I want to take this prompt in another direction. Instead of just taking the gridiron field and plopping it down on some novel location, what if we change the definition of the field itself? Instead of a football field being 120 by 53.3 yards, we make 120 by 53.3 miles. The field now totals 6396 square miles, which is about the same size as Brisbane. Now, I'm not suggesting we play this literally in Brisbane, but you get the idea of what I'm going for. We just find an area of suitable grassland that is close enough to a football field, line players up at the 20 mile yard line, and watch what happens when "in bounds" is so incomprehensibly large that the sidelines might as well not exist. And, of course, we scale everything up for miles. You got four downs to make ten miles, the end zone is twenty miles deep, and onside kicks are abolished since you need to let the ball travel ten miles first.
The whole strategy surrounding football would necessarily have to change. Kicking and punting both might as well not exist in this version of football; no human being could possibly kick the ball far enough for it to matter in the scale of distances we're using. Every drive would be fourth down territory, and I think that'd be super exciting to watch. Defensive formations would also have to account for the vast distance. The safeties, in particular, might be in another zip code from the rest of the players, just to make sure there is some line of defense if a running back or receiver starts running away with the ball. Indeed, I think this is where Akane would shine in particular. Imagine you've been running with the football for about a mile, continuously, completely out of breath, after hurdling over the defensive line. Your focus is to maybe run a marathon by the end of the day, giving your team a much needed first down and killing the entire quarter in the process, when suddenly out of nowhere this angry woman bulldozes you from your side. You drop the ball in sheer panic as you see she jumped out of a fucking bush or something. Akane, not missing a beat, scoops the ball up and runs away in the other direction. With the scale of the field, no one besides you two are even aware there's been a turnover, and Akane basically has free reign to take as long as she needs to get to the end zone, as long as she doesn't encounter anyone on the offense. The game is effectively over, 6-0.
The whole strategy surrounding football would necessarily have to change. Kicking and punting both might as well not exist in this version of football; no human being could possibly kick the ball far enough for it to matter in the scale of distances we're using. Every drive would be fourth down territory, and I think that'd be super exciting to watch. Defensive formations would also have to account for the vast distance. The safeties, in particular, might be in another zip code from the rest of the players, just to make sure there is some line of defense if a running back or receiver starts running away with the ball. Indeed, I think this is where Akane would shine in particular. Imagine you've been running with the football for about a mile, continuously, completely out of breath, after hurdling over the defensive line. Your focus is to maybe run a marathon by the end of the day, giving your team a much needed first down and killing the entire quarter in the process, when suddenly out of nowhere this angry woman bulldozes you from your side. You drop the ball in sheer panic as you see she jumped out of a fucking bush or something. Akane, not missing a beat, scoops the ball up and runs away in the other direction. With the scale of the field, no one besides you two are even aware there's been a turnover, and Akane basically has free reign to take as long as she needs to get to the end zone, as long as she doesn't encounter anyone on the offense. The game is effectively over, 6-0.
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