Phinally Philly

I feel bad making fun, but this douchebag deserved to lose his job. He called out his employer and they found out. It’s the same as saying it to the front office basically.

If I were the Eagles, I would have canned his ass too.

The Eagles can be ripped for some stupid things this offseason, but this is not one of them.

-KK

Amen to that Kieran!

Thirded.

Foley, you are an idiot and so are your fans. You write like some Philly punk wannabe who can’t find anything germane to write about sports, so you dump on a handicapped person. You don’t know anything about this guy, but anyone who has to work from a wheelchair in a football stadium deserves a helluva lot more rrespect than some coward hiding behind a keyboard.

“IS GOING TO GET YOUR FIRED”

Glad that the guy who wrote this, who was so critical of spelling, proof-read his work at least once.

Haha thanks for the heads up Timmy. Believe it or not I do proofread my work, but evidently that doesn’t apply to sentences that are all in caps.

As for you Jack, you are certainly entitled to that opinion but you criticize me for not knowing Leone when you don’t either. What if Dan had a series of incidents and this was just the one that forced the Eagles hand?

Also I feel I need to remind you that Leone was physically-handicapped, not mentally-handicapped…he should have known better.

Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk has your back guys: http://www.profootballtalk.com/2009/03/10/dan-leones-television-tour-begins/

Hi David, just noticed that PhinallyPhilly was following me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/steveolenski) and I was glad for the new follower and I reciprocated and started following this site.

However after reading this article penned by you, I immediately checked the Unfollow button.

First and foremost, I am all for free speech, so let’s get that out of the way. And I am also one prone to exercising my right to voice my opinion.

BUT what you did in this column was downright despicable and deplorable. To make light of one’s handicap and to spew such vile vitriol and to use such defaming language is quite frankly, repugnant.

What’s truly sad is your hurtful and very personal words you use only hurt you…

This whole situation is yet another example of why the Internet is a dangerous place. Anyone can have a forum and present themselves under the guise of writer/journalist/etc.

ALL you did was give Eagles fans, REAL Eagles fans who are passionate and compassionate a black eye but something tells me you don’t care.

Keep up the good work.

Sincerely,.
Steve O

Hey Steve,

Sorry you feel that way, but if you are more disgusted with me than with Dan Leone you’re not my intended audience and you won’t like my work.

I just want to point out I NEVER made fun of Dan for his disability, I made fun of him for being an attention whore who can’t spell…you evidently didn’t get the point of my post.

Thanks for the comment either way.

David,

As previously stated, I agree with you.

But, this sentence may make people think you are actually making fun of the person.

“Oh, AND LEARN TO SPELL, RETARD!!!”

It would help to take out the comma in there. Then it makes it more obvious that you’re telling the person who got fired that he needs to learn how to spell.

-KK

Fair enough Kieran, I took out the sentence entirely. It’s redundant anyway. I also fixed the link so that it point to the actual story, not that lame picture.

It cracks me up though that people are getting offended as if Leone is mentally handicapped and I’m making fun of him for that, when he actually isn’t at all (It’s a physical issue, people.) Regardless, this has nothing to do with his physical ailments and people who try to make this story about that are missing the entire point…that he deservedly got fired for publicly criticizing his employer.

Alright this arguing has to stop. What the guy did was wrong. Everyone feels sorry for him out of media speculation. He’s not a member of the press or someone who can give their opinions so freely…he is a member of the Eagle’s organization. However low on the latter he may have been he still represented the Philadelphia Eagles. Professional organizations must remain professional. That’s the whole point.

I don’t think anyone is necessarily arguing here.

The point of contention is whether what the Eagles did was justifiable, and I can’t see how it wasn’t. If I ran a team I am entirely within my right to fire an employee that criticizes the organization I run. Would I want that kind if negativity around my work environment?

Dan Leone has free speech, but he also needs to realize that there are consequences that can come from that. The only person who was unprofessional here was Leone, and if he really wanted his job back that bad he would have been better served to keep his mouth shut and talk to team officials privately.