Grounding
Grounding noun - Education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge.
Pass
Pass noun - A narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage.
Grounding is an antonym for pass in topics: predicament, authorization, opening through solid, sexual proposition.
Both words in one sentence
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This counts as an incomplete pass, and is in most rulebooks a specific exception to the intentional grounding rule (as long as the ball is handed to the quarterback by the center, rather than snapped long in a shotgun formation or similar, and as long as the quarterback does so immediately).
Source: Useful Notes / American Football - Intentional grounding can be avoided if the quarterback is no longer behind his offensive line; in this case, the ball can be thrown almost anywhere for simply an incomplete pass (as long as it crosses the line of scrimmage).
Source: Useful Notes / American Football
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