Morning after Chicago Bears' rivals beat them to advance to Super Bowl, a car salesman with two children is fired for refusing to remove the Packers-branded tie.
John Stone of Chicago wears the Green Bay Packers tie on Monday, shortly after he was fired from his job for refusing to remove it. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It might have been better for John Stone if his favorite team had lost on Sunday.
Unless some Packer Backer from neighboring Wisconsin gives him a lucrative job.
Stone grew up in Chicago and worked there -- until Monday. He's a Packers fan, which in Chicago these days, is akin to poking a polar bear cub. You're asking for it.
Monday, he really tempted fate, wearing a Packers tie to his job as a car salesman. And though Webb Chevrolet general manager Jerry Roberts admits no customers complained about Stone's tie, Roberts fired Stone anyway when he refused to follow orders and remove it.
Kim Janssen writes about how Roberts was fit to be tied about Stone's fashion choice, a day after the Packers beat the Bears to advance to the Super Bowl:
The facts aren’t in dispute, only the appropriateness of the novelty neckwear.
“He said, ‘You have two options,’ ” a furious Stone said later Monday. “Remove the tie, or you’re fired.”
“When I didn’t, he said, ‘You can leave, you’re fired.’ Does that sound fair to you?”
Stone, a father of two who had worked at Webb Chevrolet for a month-and-a-half, grew up in Chicago’s Roseland community but said he’s supported the Packers since he first saw former running back Ahman Green play.
“I liked the way he played, and I liked Brett Favre before he left, and I love Aaron Rodgers, the coaching staff — the whole organization,” he said.
Source: http://www.cleveland.com/ohio-sports-blog/index.ssf/2011/01/green_bay_packers_fan_working.html
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