Man Fired for Wearing Packers Tie to Work

Tuesday, 25 January 2011 | by Pat's Picks

The Packers won their invitation to this year’s Super Bowl fair and square, after beating the Bears 21-14 on Sunday night. But that didn’t stop owners of a suburban Chicago car dealership from firing an employee because he wore a Packers’ tie to work says the Chicago Tribune. The employee says he wore the tie in honor of his late grandmother, a life-long Packers fan who was buried two days before the team’s NFC win. The now ex-employee says he thought his boss was joking when he told him to remove the tie.

Local TV station WGN broke the story. They also caught up with the man’s boss, who copped to the firing on camera: