at which time the fans blowing from the other team's end zone make moving forward harder the closer you get.

So you're on your own ten yard line, you throw a pass, it's got a 50 mile per hour wind behind it, that thing's gonna sail. But once you get into enemy territory, the wind's blowing against you. Your passes will be shorter, you'll be running against the wind instead of with it but you might even be able to use it to your advantage. Might be able to do a "U shaped pass" where you throw it up such that it turns back and lands in your receiver's arms.

And yes, you could do the same thing for soccer too.
-- doctorremulac3, Feb 13 2023

Thought this might be an idea for the opposing team's fat supporters inflating two giant balloons until they meet in the middle and the game is (mercifully) blotted out. (any team game will do - they're all equally moronic to me)
-- xenzag, Feb 14 2023


Or just make the field parabolic.
-- RayfordSteele, Feb 14 2023


Where does the wind blow to?
-- pocmloc, Feb 14 2023


Both are blowing inwards towards the 50 yard line, at which point you might even get some interesting interaction between the two airflows.
-- doctorremulac3, Feb 14 2023


//Or just make the field parabolic//

A big half-pipe then? The skateboards would suffer with the grass, but the BMXers might be good value for the half-time show!
-- bs0u0155, Feb 14 2023


I'd combine this with the entire playing area being on a massive rotating turntable, so that there are some interesting coriolis or centripetal forces experienced by players running down the field, and it would also be good to get some magnetic forces in there as well
-- hippo, Feb 15 2023


Oooh, a rotating magnetic field, but with a different axis & speed to the rotating actual field; magnets on players boots or belt or something. So you'd get all sorts of weird periodic interactions. Plus the blowers, of course.
-- neutrinos_shadow, Feb 15 2023


American football for the nerds? I'll bun that.
-- Voice, Feb 15 2023



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