[northernlights99]

I wanted to compare the areas covered by CFL, NFL, MLS and MLB fields, found some surprising results :

CFL field covers 2 acres or 87,750 square feet using 2026 dimensions, including end zones

NFL field is comparatively smaller only covering 1.32 acres or 57,780 square feet, including end zones

MLS field using 75 yards by 105 yards covers 1.62 acres or 70,875 square feet

MLB field covers 4.5 acres or 196,000 square feet including Infield and Outfield and assuming 325 feet down the foul lines and 400 feet out to center.

This explains why it was so hard for the L.A. Coliseum to accommodate baseball games even though the Dodgers did play there before moving into Dodger Stadium. The left foul line was quite short resulting in more home runs, in fact they had to build screens in the outfield.

Easier for a baseball stadium to accommodate football or soccer than the other way around. Hence the major hassles Exhibition Stadium had accommodating both Argonauts and Blue Jays.

Also a reason why baseball stadiums are generally smaller in capacity than NFL stadiums as in baseball so much more area is taken up by the field.

However Olympic Stadium had some huge crowds for the Expos, sometimes as many as 60,000 fans !

Owing to the large footprint.