Alabama fan fired for hanging Crimson Tide flag at Texas A&M’s Kyle Field (Photo)
Texas A&M is in the midst of renovating Kyle Field to add a few thousand seats to make it one of the largest stadiums in college football, but they got one unwelcome addition in the form of an Alabama flag that was hung from a construction worker.
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College football fans are as territorial and passionate about their team as any other sport in the world, especially Alabama fans who are as vocal, loyal and fanatical as they come.
Sometimes that passion can come back to bite you in the butt as one crane operator at Kyle Field was fired for this prank.
Aren’t pranks and rivalry’s an integral part of college and college athletics?
Someone on the Kyle Field job site wants to get fired. pic.twitter.com/zbjGnR884r
— Doug Keegan (@doug_keegan) July 14, 2014
Apparently this prank was too much for Texas A&M to handle as Outkick the Coverage reported on Monday that the construction worker was fired after hanging the Alabama flag on the face of the stadium. “We are unaware of how the Alabama flag was placed on the Kyle Field job site, but it was removed once discovered.”
Is that a bit harsh?
It’s not as if the construction worker wrote, “Roll Tide” in wet concrete or permanently defaced the stadium. If there were no previous issues with the employee, that comes off to me as a bit heavy-handed. Now this guy who OTC reported was not an Alabama grad has to look for a new means to support his family.
But I guess the summer heat has zapped any semblance of a sense of humor in the College Station heat.
Should the worker have known better? Of course. You don’t mess with college football fans in Texas, but here’s to hoping a construction crew gives this guy a job, maybe somewhere closer to Tuscaloosa would suit him much better.