Weather Conditions and Change in Punting Rule
Because of strong winds of up 30 to 40 miles per hour, CFL officials, in agreement with both head coaches, Bud Grant for Winnipeg and Ralph Sazio for Hamilton, changed a punting rule prior to the game, perhaps unprecedented in CFL if not in football history. Instead of punts being returned with no Fair catch rule, punts into the wind would be ruled dead as soon as the returner touched the ball, a sort of forced Fair catch rule, the rule being voluntary in the National Football League. Without the rule change, it was thought that the team going against the wind would lose the viable option of punting and be forced instead to try to convert on third downs all the time.
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