John McCain's campaign claims he made an "honest mistake" when he incorrectly told a Pittsburgh reporter that he rattled off the lineup for the Pittsburgh Steelers when under pressure to give up names by his Vietnam captors.

McCain was being interviewed by the Pennsylvania TV station KDKA Wednesday when he started talking about how the Steelers "really made a huge impression on me, particularly in their early years."

He recalled how, when he was being held in Vietnam as a prisoner of war, he "named ... the defensive line of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron mates" under interrogation.

But ABC News' Jake Tapper noted that every other recounting of the story, including that from McCain's book "Faith of my Fathers," involved the Green Bay Packers' lineup -- not the Steelers'.

A senior McCain adviser told FOX News it was not intentional, and that the story from over 40 years ago is a non-issue.

Click here to read the article from KDKA.com

FOX News' Mosheh Oinounou contributed to this report.