Fonzie, the James Dean-like character played by Henry Winkler in the old TV series, “Happy Days,” had a hard time saying he was wrong.

He just couldn’t get the word “wrong” out. He was too cool for school to do that.

We have no problem doing that here.

We were wrong – dead wrong, in fact – in our last post when we said Northeast Ohio native Josh McDaniels was leaving as New England Patriots offensive coordinator to become head coach of the Indianapolis Colts.

But a lot of people were wrong, too – actually, everybody else.

It seemed like only a formality that McDaniels would officially head to the Colts. His move was one of the worst-kept secrets in the NFL in the last several weeks.

But, to the total shock of the football world, at the 11th hour – really, at about 11:59, so to speak – McDaniels decided to stay with the Patriots. That occurred when, just as he was getting ready to go around the team’s complex in Foxborough and say goodbye to everyone, Patriots owner Robert Kraft and former Browns head coach Bill Belichick sat him down and, over several hours, talked him into staying.

Unaware that any of that was taking place – because no one in the media was aware it was taking place – I sent my story to our posting guy, and up on our site it went. And once that occurs with the way we do things at brownsdailydose.com, it’s impossible to correct. We just have to live with egg on our face and correct it on our next post, which we are doing as you read this.

This kind of stuff happens.  It just does. It’s happened before, and it will happen again. People change their mind, for a variety of reasons.

We’ll get into this more in our next post because there are a lot of interesting aspects to what happened in New England, and didn’t happen in Indianapolis.

But in the meantime, let us repeat that we were wrong, and that we are sorry. We apologize.