How does it affect FGs when it blows south? Does the football complex shield the north goal posts?
The wind at PJCS is not as bad as some other stadiums that I have kicked in, but sometimes it can get tricky. During my playing days I would always hope that the wind would be blowing to the open end of the stadium. The reason I preferred that was because you would have the wind at your back on field goals that way and the closed end of the stadium would somewhat block the wind when you would be kicking into it. When the wind blows towards the south it comes in around the football complex and will swirl around the goalposts. Also, I learned early on to never judge the flags on top of the goalposts. They are not very heavy and are impacted by the smallest amount of wind. You have to judge the wind in warm-ups and notice any changes throughout the game. The only time I would ever try to “play” the wind would be when I was outside of forty yards. If you could’ve kicked a game-winning FG against any team on the road as time expired, who would it have been? And second, who would win in arm-
