ESPN Sugar Bowl game

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jan 4 04:22:18 UTC 2012


OK, the verb. But doesn't "throwing long" imply that the pass is
incomplete? Would it not be "going long" if we don't yet know the
outcome? Or am I just splitting hairs?

VS-)

On 1/3/2012 10:55 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> "[The quarterback] throws long and… _incompletes_."
>
> --
> -Wilson

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