So I watch and play rugby, yet Twickenhams Pitch is comparable to the ones I play on as pitch sizes are regulated to be within limits but looks huge when I watch it on the TV.
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A lot of things look bigger on TV due to the lack of depth perception and smaller field of view which doesn’t give you a good chance to compare sizes of different things at the same time.
Also, sports fields/stadiums feel like they should be bigger because professional ones are surrounded by a lot of extra structure for seating and infrastructure. It’s pretty common in most large cities for the largest and most noticeable structure in the city to be a sports stadium. The building is big, the stands are big, the advertisements and signs are big, and usually covered in lots of lights and colors. Then I remember that the school yard I played football on when I was 10 years old was exactly the same size as the professional one that seems so massive and overwhelming. It doesn’t quite feel the same, lacking all the surrounding structure.
Just like in art it isn’t so much what is there, but how you view it.
If you took a standard sized photograph and looked at it you’d think nothing of the size. Now take that same photograph and get a jewelers lense to look at each inch of the photo you would likely feel it was larger than viewing it in its entirety.
This is the same as on TV you’re looking at each individual segment of the field with so much on it the panning of the camera to other areas in tandem with much commentary can really stress the size.
The distance a ball travels really becomes a lot farther in your mind when a commentator is screaming “and it’s GOOOOONNNNEEEE” or something similar.
Long story short the answer is forced perspective.
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