College football is in full swing right now, and Studly Doright and I watched games most of the afternoon and into the late evening. After one successful short pass from the quarterback to a wide receiver the commentator said, “That little shuffle pass has been effective against this defense this year.”
Studly turned to me and asked, “Is it shuttle pass or shuffle pass?”
As the self-proclaimed word expert in our home I declared that it had to be shuttle. I reasoned that the QB was shuttling the pass along. Studly disagreed. He believed the word was shuffle because it was as if the passer was shuffling a card to the receiver.
We argued back and forth until I googled the topic. I’m happy to say that Studly was wrong. But sad to say that I, too, was incorrect. The term is shovel pass because the hand motion involved mimics the movement of a shovel being wielded.
Well, fine. I don’t agree with the decision, but I can’t be right all the time. That would be annoying.
Peace, people!
Praying for Eyebrowz 
And I thought watching the oldest grandie’s four aside footie yesterday was complicated. ….
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To me, a four aside footie sounds way more complicated than a shuttle, er shovel, pass.
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Aw it’s just the number in the teams they get the wee ones playing in to start with. Next season it will be five a side x
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Aha!
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😀
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Well, you had some of the right letters =D
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Yes! I’ll draw solace from that.
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I think I always thought it was shuffle pass, too!
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Apparently shuffle pass isn’t an uncommon term for the shovel pass. A Google search showed several examples where it had been used. Shuttle, though, didn’t even get an honorable mention. I’ve been wrong all these years.
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Shovel makes so much more sense! Thank you for enlightening me. I *thought* I knew football!
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I’m fairly knowledgeable about football terminology, but apparently not knowledgeable enough.
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