Drop
Drop verb - To cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally.
Heaved
Both words in one sentence
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A Monday Night Football game in 2000 between the Vikings and Packers ended in overtime in crazy fashion: Brett Favre heaved a 3rd down pass to Antonio Freeman, which appeared to drop incomplete...and then Freeman got up and ran with the ball into the end zone.
Source: Down to the Last Play
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