Intentional grounding
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intentional-grounding-207-2680095
title:
Intentional grounding
text:
In gridiron football, intentional grounding is a violation of the rules where "a passer...throws a forward pass without a realistic chance of completion." This typically happens when a quarterback about to be sacked passes the ball toward an area of the field with no eligible receiver. Without this rule, the quarterback could almost always avoid a sack by intentionally throwing an incomplete pass; instead, the penalty of intentional grounding effectively continues play as if the defense had succ
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Penalty in American football
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_grounding
date created:
2007-11-12T07:21:40Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T01:05:50Z
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