This reader is right, I was wrong. Please update your glossaries:

This may seem a bit picky but I think it’s pertinent. The Palin choice wasn’t a ‘Hail Mary’, but a ‘Long Bomb’. The latter is a much-validated component of many an aggressive offense (Montana, Favre, Brady, ….). The former is a last play, desperation throw (Flutie at BC). Isn’t this so much more fun than we ever had the right to hope for?