How did Staples head coach Marce Petroccio spend his birthday yesterday? He might as well have been tied to a stake, and that’s all my fault.
One typo in a quote in the Cheshire-Staples article I wrote for the Connecticut Post and Stamford Advocate caused Petroccio a lot of unnecessary grief. The quote has been fixed online, and I owe a huge apology to the Staples football program, family and fans.
In short, the quote made it appear that Petroccio threw a player under the bus and blamed him for the team’s overtime loss in the CIAC Class LL state championship game. To give you an idea how tough the typo was to notice to the naked eye, the person who told me about the personal Hell Petroccio went through yesterday didn’t know I was the author.
But everyone who knows Petroccio knows that he puts the team before the individuals, and has never been known to bad mouth a player of his team or the opposition. Petroccio has been the epitome of winning with grace and losing with dignity.
And everyone who knows me knows I am an awful typist and a horrendous speller. Most days I’m amazed I write professionally, since I couldn’t tell you a noun from a prepositional phrase.
But I grew up right, and was taught from an early age to admit to my mistakes and not blame other for what I have done wrong. And I was also taught to apologize for doing the wrong thing. Today I did that, I went to Staples and apologized both to Petroccio and to Matt Kelly, the Staples player who was unintentionally thrown under the bus.
The audio clip from the interview is below, and it’s further proof that Petroccio said “we just didn’t get it done today,” and didn’t point the finger at Kelly.
Again, my most sincere apology to the Staples Wreckers, their families and their fans for any grief that my carelessness has caused.
Marce Petroccio postgame comments Dec. 6, 2009
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