Facebooker Fired By Eagles Speaks Out

A lifelong Eagles fan says his Facebook page lost him his job.

Dan Leone said he was fired from Lincoln Financial Field after expressing his anger online over the Birds' failure to re-sign free agent safety Brian Dawkins.

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Leone talked about what happened Tuesday morning on "Good Day Philadelphia."

Asked how upset he was over the loss of Dawkins, Leone said, "furious."

"I feel like I lost a family member. He was like, he meant that much to me. And when he said, I heard that Denver signed him, my head was spinning," Leone said.

Leone grew up in the area of 10th Street and Oregon Avenue and said he started out working as a guest services gate and, in his second year at the stadium, moved up to the gate. He had since run the gate for five years.

"Yeah, I'm a huge Eagles fan. I've got an Eagles tattoo on me. I'm a big supporter of the Eagles," Leone said.

He described being so happy to get a job with the team that he told everybody, including friends who didn't even live in the city.

"Man, this was like a lifelong dream to me. And then to get the call last week saying that I was no longer employed, my heart just sunk into my chest, my stomach," Leone said.

He said he kept the Facebook post up "for probably two days."

"The day after I put it on, my boss sent me a posting asking, 'Can we talk about this?' And I was like, 'Sure.' I immediately apologized. I said, 'I'm sorry if I offended anybody' or whatever, and I took it down," Leone said.

As for what the reasoning was, Leone said, "Basically, that I didn't represent them well because I didn't make them look good as a front-line staff member."

In a statement to Fox 29, the team said, "We do not discuss employment, or any matters involving employees."

The story has generated a lot of attention, from the article that first appeared in Monday's Philadelphia Inquirer on up to ESPN.

Leone has a neurological disorder that makes it difficult for him to stand for long lengths of time. Sometimes he used a wheelchair at work to get back and forth from the sign-in area to his gate.

"You can ask anybody that worked with me at my gate, like, the pain I was suffering, I would do stretches during the game and take some Tylenol or whatever just to get through the game because that's how much of a fan I am," Leone said.

He said he feels a more appropriate punishment would have been a suspension for a season or a few games, "but nothing to this extent."

Asked if he's still an Eagles fan after all of this, Leone said, "1,000 percent," and he would like to talk to the team or have a sit-down conversation with them about the situation.

"I would like very much so to at least have a second chance to go and talk with them in the office just one-on-one or whatever I have to do, whoever I have to talk to. And I'm begging -- well, not begging, but -- I really want the job back," he said.

As for whether he holds out hope he can get the job back, he said, "I hope. This is really hurting me right now. I love the team. I hate to have hard feelings towards my team, so I'd really like to get back in."