A few months ago, I gave the invocation at a banquet where the venerated Wayne Woodrow Hayes, longtime coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes, was the speaker. Halfway through his address, Woody took off on the evils of the forward pass. He explained the horror of trajectory. That’s what happens to the ball between the passer and the receiver. If it’s perfect, the consequence is a completion. If not, two of the three possible effects of throwing a pass result: an incompletion or, peri…