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A Philadelphia Eagles fan who lashed out at a woman visiting the Green Bay Packers during Sunday’s playoff game lost his job this week at a New Jersey company that has specialized in DEI work because of his behavior, which was caught in a viral video.
The fan, who was not released by his former employer, BCT Partners, is also barred from future events at Lincoln Financial Field, the Eagles’ home stadium, a person told The New York Times. York Times.
In the video, which was shared online by the woman’s fiance on Monday morning and has been viewed more than 31 million times on X, the fan repeatedly called her obscene names and cursed her during the Eagles’ 22-10 victory in the final. . The man was sitting in the upper deck, one row behind the couple, who were both wearing Packers jerseys and live outside of Philadelphia.
The woman’s fiance, Alexander Basara, a podcaster who focuses on the Packers, asked Internet sleuths to help him identify the man.
“What’s it like going to Philly just trying to root for your team…” he wrote. “Not blocked, not called. Packers on twitter, help me and find this guy…… this is not right, I hate that my fiancé made this happy for his team.”
In a social media post Tuesday, BCT Partners, based in East Brunswick, NJ, wrote that it had “decided to part ways” with the employee immediately after conducting an internal investigation into the matter. he did in the game.
“We condemn the conduct of our former employees in the strongest possible terms,” the company wrote. “This person’s behavior and language is vile, disgusting, unacceptable and appalling and has no place in our workplace and society. Such behavior is not who we are and what we stand for.”
Efforts to reach fans involved in the episode via phone, email and text message Wednesday were not immediately successful.
On BCT Partners’ website, the firm describes itself as a minority and “DEI champion,” an acronym for diversity, equity and inclusion. The website states that the group’s corporate culture is guided by the “South African principle of Ubuntu, translated as ‘I am because we are’ or ‘humanity among others.'”
The company apologized to the woman in the video and said it is committed to gender equality.
The woman and her fiance, Mr. Basara, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Wednesday.
In an interview on Tuesday, the woman and Mr. Basara told NBC10 in Philadelphia that the man sitting behind them became increasingly confrontational toward the end of the third quarter and began insulting her.
“I think he attacked me more because I’m a woman and I wouldn’t punch him in the face, or he didn’t feel threatened by me,” she said.
In a city known for its ruthlessness toward sports fans — and where Santa Claus was snowed in at halftime of an Eagles game in 1968 — the the attitude of the fans is a national concern.
This is not the first time this season of the National Football League that inappropriate behavior has been caused by a fan.
In December, a Detroit Lions fan had his season tickets revoked by the team after he got into a shouting match with Packers coach Matt LaFleur on the field before a game. The fan was asked to help hold up a giant American flag when he began taunting visiting players and coaches, including a throat-biting gesture.
Also in December, the family of an 8-year-old cancer survivor who attended a Buffalo Bills game said they left early after the girl, a San Francisco 49ers fan, pushed visitors that night. the home team.
Kirsten Noyes participated in the research.
