Sports: National Football League: Packers fan wears wrong necktie

Booker Rising [jan25,2k11]

Chicago Car Salesman Fired 

For Wearing Packers Tie

I told ya that we Bears fans take the Bears-Packers rivalry – the oldest 
rivalry in the NFL, going strong since 1921 – seriously. How ya gonna wear a Green Bay tie to work in the day after that big game, when you work with the Chicagoland public?! Putting your job at risk, in this economy?! From the Associated Press: "A car salesman in suburban Chicago has been fired for refusing to remove a Green Bay Packers tie that he wore to work the day after the Packers beat the Chicago Bears to advance to the Super Bowl. John Stone says he wore the Packers tie to work on Monday at Webb Chevrolet in Oak Lawn to honor his late grandmother, who was a big Green Bay fan. The sentimental gesture did not impress his boss, Jerry Roberts."

More: "Roberts says the dealership has done promotions involving the Bears and he was afraid the tie could alienate the team's fans and make it harder to sell cars. Roberts adds that Stone was offered five chances to take off the tie but he refused."

-- Shay Riley, editor, Booker Rising
-- reposted by Sportikos