Despite being one of the game’s most well-known features, indoor football’s condensed dimensions are still shocking to fans accustomed to gridiron’s traditional, significantly more popular outdoor form. At 50 yards long and 28⅓ yards wide, an indoor football field offers players roughly one-quarter the area of an NFL field.
To accommodate for this, indoor football permits fewer on-field players than its outdoor equivalent (eight and 11, respectively). You’ll notice, however, that the number of players isn’t reduced by nearly the same extent as the playing area. As a result, indoor football fields are crowded and, with so many players crammed into so small an area, the games are action-packed – and that’s even before accounting for the padded walls.
