ESPN Sugar Bowl game

[Garson O'Toole]

Here is an example from GB where "throws long" does not mean
overthrows. It probably means "throwing the ball a long distance".
Victor noted that this was a possibility. I am posting this as a
concrete illustration.

4th & Inches - Page 146
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No. 1 drops back, he has time, he throws long, and it's caught by No.
22, who cuts right to avoid a would-be tackier and gets hit from
behind.

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think you are mistaken about "throwing long" always meaning overthrowing,
> although I can see it being hard to distinguish the "throwing the ball for
> long yardage" from "overthrowing the receiver" without context.
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> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> To be honest, I don't follow football that closely and have not watched
>> a whole game in several years (I am not sure I've put in a complete
>> quarter, except for a couple of NFL playoff games). So my memory on
>> expression frequency may be faulty. But my recollection was that
>> "throwing long" most of the times implies overthrowing the
>> receiver--although it can also just mean throwing the ball a long
>> distance. If I hear a comment, "He threw long time and time again," I
>> assume it refers to a quarterback who has repeatedly overthrown his
>> receivers, not just throwing the ball a long distance. "Going long"
>> means a particularly long throw (over 20 yards, or something like that).
>> A "long throw" (noun) would be just that, without an implication
>> regarding completion.
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>> So, right or wrong, this is the clarification of what I meant. It may
>> also differ regionally or simply from one commentator to another.
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>>     VS-)
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>> On 1/4/2012 1:38 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>> > ...I'm not sure i see a difference between "throwing" and "going"
>> > here. LH
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