Wow. I thought it was a “Tuttle Pass” after a misprint of Y.A. Tittle’s name.
No, It’s not a whoosh. When a quarterback is taught the shuffle pass, like on an inside screen play, he is taught to flip it outward from his chest with his palm facing down. Just like when sliding a weight in shuffle board. The only thing that shovels dirt like that is an excavator.
The only time a quarterback flings the ball like you would shovel dirt is when he is about to be sacked and that’s the only movement he has left.
As I said above I have no idea if it’s true. What I was pointing out is that it’s easy to make up fake entomologies when you have a grain of plausibility, but it does not make them right.
It’s called a stubble pass. The first QB who ever did this has not shaved that morning (which was extremely controversial in 1916 and the cause of an NCAA investigation 12 years later) and the name caught on.
“Ok, kid, we’ve got a new play for you. What you want to do is wait for the running back to get near that gap in the line, then feed him the ball outward from your chest, like in shuffleboard”
“Shuffleboard?”
“Yeah, shuffleboard, you know the game all those octogenarians play when they’re on cruises. Deliver the ball just like you would slide the weight in shuffleboard.”
“…”
“Ok, imagine you’re really old, and on a cruise, and looking to score with that wrinkly lady drinking the banana daiquiri. You’ve got a 5 foot long stick, and you’re pushing a plastic disk towards a triangle 20 feet away. Throw the ball just like that.”
“Got it, Coach!”
I thought it was spelled “Raymond Luxury Yacht Pass,” but was pronounced “Throatwarbler Mangrove Pass.” Have I been misinformed?
I’ve heard it variously as “shovel”, “shuffle”, or “shuttle”. As far as I can tell, they’re all completely synonymous, and are all correct.
I can see there’s no flieson you… 
Add one more name to the list, the “Utah pass”.
Pet peeve of mine I’ve mentioned in this post. Hate that. It’s as bad as “should of.”
It’s spelled Murkowski if the coach writes in the player’s name in the playbook.
Technically, yes, but I think “hook and ladder” is pretty widely accepted terminology. Look no further than Varsity Blues, your football authority, where Lance signals in the play by mimicking the ol’ hook in the mouth followed by climbing the ladder. How he slipped that one past the defense, I’ll never quite know.
Wait wait wait. It’s not called a subtle pass?
I thought it was stubble pass, as perfected by Ben Roethlisburger and Brett Favre.
Or a stumble pass, perfected by Rex Grossman.
Certainly we could come up with something better for these two dandies.
For all INTENTS AND PURPOSES.
For all intents and purposes.
Even Madden? :smack:
No, it’s for all indentured porpoises.