{"id":896551,"date":"2026-04-03T08:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/ufl-unveils-significant-rule-changes-to-punts-field-goals\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:22:22","slug":"ufl-unveils-significant-rule-changes-to-punts-field-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/ufl-unveils-significant-rule-changes-to-punts-field-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"UFL unveils significant rule changes to punts, field goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Football League (UFL) is the latest to make significant changes to its rules. Starting with its upcoming seasons, all UFL field goals 60-plus yards in length will be worth four points. The league has also banned punting in opponent territory, except for the final two minutes of the first and second halves&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/2026\/02\/24\/ufl-unveils-significant-rule-changes-to-punts-field-goals\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n 3Down Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Football League (UFL) is the latest to make significant changes to its rules. Starting with its upcoming seasons, all UFL field goals 60-plus yards in length will be worth four points. The league has also banned punting in opponent territory, except for the final two minutes of the first and second halves&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":896552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28056,192,1009],"tags":[14964,7477],"class_list":{"0":"post-896551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-significant","8":"category-sports","9":"category-unveils","10":"tag-significant","11":"tag-unveils"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}