goof-up

The NFL vehemently disagreed with Steratore’s contention and a day later Steratore owned up to his goof-up.

One reason the Raiders are glad they didn’t settle for the sure thing of a tie and eliminate any chance, no matter how small, of a goof-up — a bad snap, a block, a return — was that Las Vegas would have earned the seventh seed had the thrilling Week 18 finale ended in an improbable tie.

These numbers point to either a major census data goof-up or one of the most remarkable unreported sociological phenomenon of our times.

My goof-up starts a chain reaction.

But it appears to have been decades since the last goof-up, so notching two in the same year was striking.