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The Bears/Packer rivalry is an old one, with many strong feelings on both sides. Fans on both sides aren't incredibly rational when it comes to their feelings about one another.
There are people whom I regularly converse with on Twitter whom I've hated for the last 48 hours just because they're Packers fans. In a week I'll like them again, but at the moment the wound is still a bit too fresh for me.
Of course, this doesn't mean I'm going to unfollow any of them, or cease all communication with them. Though apparently there's someone running a car dealership in Oak Lawn who couldn't say the same.
With Chicago reeling from Sunday’s painful playoff loss, Monday morning probably wasn’t the best time for car salesman John Stone to share his love for the Green Bay Packers with co-workers and customers.
But Stone, 34, proudly showed up for work at Webb Chevrolet in south suburban Oak Lawn wearing his green-and-yellow Packers necktie anyway.
Now he’s former car salesman John Stone.
The morning after the Chicago Bears’ hated rivals beat them at Soldier Field to advance to the Super Bowl, Webb’s general manager Jerry Roberts says he fired Stone for refusing to remove the Packers-branded tie.
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 only worked at the dealership for a month and a half, but still, considering the economy right now, firing a father of two for wearing a Packers tie is a bit overdramatic. At the same time, if I have two kids and need my job, when my boss tells me to take off my tie or else he'll fire me, I take off the damn tie.
Still, this does seem a bit ridiculous. I mean Stone is a Packers fan, but you shouldn't hold that against them. If a baby is born with brain damage do you blame the baby? No, and Packers fans aren't any different than babies with brain damage.
The Bears/Packer rivalry is an old one, with many strong feelings on both sides. Fans on both sides aren't incredibly rational when it comes to their feelings about one another.
There are people whom I regularly converse with on Twitter whom I've hated for the last 48 hours just because they're Packers fans. In a week I'll like them again, but at the moment the wound is still a bit too fresh for me.
Of course, this doesn't mean I'm going to unfollow any of them, or cease all communication with them. Though apparently there's someone running a car dealership in Oak Lawn who couldn't say the same.
With Chicago reeling from Sunday’s painful playoff loss, Monday morning probably wasn’t the best time for car salesman John Stone to share his love for the Green Bay Packers with co-workers and customers.
But Stone, 34, proudly showed up for work at Webb Chevrolet in south suburban Oak Lawn wearing his green-and-yellow Packers necktie anyway.
Now he’s former car salesman John Stone.
The morning after the Chicago Bears’ hated rivals beat them at Soldier Field to advance to the Super Bowl, Webb’s general manager Jerry Roberts says he fired Stone for refusing to remove the Packers-branded tie.
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 only worked at the dealership for a month and a half, but still, considering the economy right now, firing a father of two for wearing a Packers tie is a bit overdramatic. At the same time, if I have two kids and need my job, when my boss tells me to take off my tie or else he'll fire me, I take off the damn tie.
Still, this does seem a bit ridiculous. I mean Stone is a Packers fan, but you shouldn't hold that against them. If a baby is born with brain damage do you blame the baby? No, and Packers fans aren't any different than babies with brain damage.
