How Do You Make A Backyard Football Field?
Tossing the pigskin around the backyard is a pastime as old as the NFL. Whether it’s Thanksgiving Day, the Super Bowl or just a pick up game, here’s a way to really impress your friends next time you invite them over your house to play football; build your very own backyard football field. Step 1 Measure the backyard. If your backyard measures the NFL required one hundred and twenty-yards by fifty yards, fantastic. But for many people an entire football field will not quite fit. Take a measurement of the area that you’d like to use to construct your field. This will give you the length of the field inclusive of end zones. Step 2 Mark your field. Now that you have the measurements, mark your field into twelve equal increments. These will be your yard-lines. Ten, twenty, thirty and so on…including zones. Step 3 Spray paint or line your field. Depending on how much of a “weekend warrior” you are, decide how intense you want to get with this process. If you want exact measurements and st