Connecticut readers get the shaft from newspapers vulgar Jets headline blunder

Ouch!A newspaper in Connecticut had an unfortunate typo involving Jets linebacker C.J.Mosley’s herniated disc on Monday.This past Monday, The Chronicle, a newspaper covering Eastern Connecticut, published an AP story on the front page of its sports section in the print edition that referred to Mosley’s “herniated d–k.”Mosley has missed the Jets’ four games with the injury — the one in his neck, that is.In the copy, Mosley’s injury was not shafted, getting described correctly in the nut graph.The unfortunate phallacy did not go unnoticed: in an extra twist, the error went viral when it was posted on the X account of David Coverdale, the 73-year-old singer of Whitesnake.An editor for The Chronicle told The Post that the newspaper would be issuing a correction in the paper.Last week, prior to the Jets’ loss to the Colts, Mosley spoke about how he hoped to return after the Jets’ bye, when they host the Seahawks on Dec.

1.“That’s definitely the goal,” he said.

“I’m in a position where I’ve played a lot of football.Me missing this time won’t hurt me as much as another guy that might need this opportunity.

It’s about safety at the end of the day.When I go home, I’m Clint Mosley.

I’m C.J.I’m not the football player.”Mosley said the birth of his daughter, who arrived the week after his injury, put things in perspective for him.“I had a full week of having a normal neck and ever since then every time I’m looking down, my neck’s hurting,” Mosley said.

“It puts things in perspective.There’s a lot of life after football.

When I’m done playing, I want to make sure I’m 100 percent.”From head to toe and everywhere in between....