BY GREG SELBER

It would be like a butcher being asked for bologna and confidently wrapping up a half-pound of salami, and writing “salami” on the receipt. Well, it ain’t salami, see?

And it ain’t how The Observer said it was Friday night because somehow, in the fog of war, he imagined he’d seen Edinburg’s Stevie Guerrero put his head down and stick a Harlingen defender so hard that the latter fellow’s hat flew off his head and into the air.

The truth is that we now know, thanks to the power of technology, that the opposite was indeed the case, and that while Guerrero probably got the best of the physical exchange between Card and Cat, he was actually the one who ended up head-bare after the play. His spirited gesticulations to the good, he nonetheless got de-helmeted, not the Card in question.

So, onward we roll, after a fantastic game between two worthy adversaries. And we are reminded that journalism is truly just the rough draft of history, an organic, living document – especially in these dizzying viral days of instant and digital communication – subject to sober and contrite revision in the cold light of day.

The moral to this story: even the so-called experts botch the job every now and then again, and there is something refreshing in this realization, for it reaffirms that we must all endeavor to render the facts such that they are with the utmost care and precision. This, The Observer will internalize as the latest football season continues.

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