If we were on a planet with lighter gravity, Gary, do you think that maybe we could increase the size of the field and increase the number of players per side? That would work. It's just the fact that at some point you're going to have to cover distance as an athlete and you are having to cover more distance. Maybe you could supplement that by having more players on the field at the same time. Or you actually have co-teams. So the field is big enough where one team takes one third of one half,. I mean, one half of one half, the other team takes a quarter. And then they're not allowed to go into the other zones. Oh
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