When John Hall was a rookie kicker with the New York Jets, he would hop out of bed at the team hotel near the Meadowlands the morning of every home game, and race to the window to see what the New Jersey wind was doing to the trees below. By the end of that season, Hall, now a veteran with the Washington Redskins, had discontinued the morning ritual, realizing that there was no adequate way to anticipate weather conditions at Giants Stadium, particularly at 9 a.m.
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