GREEN BAY (AP) — A maintenance employee who's worked for the Green Bay Packers for more than two decades is fired after making a comment to head coach Mike McCarthy.
Fifty-three-year-old Mike Wood was sitting in a maintenance cart in a stadium tunnel a few days before the Minnesota Vikings visited Lambeau Field. As McCarthy talked to members of the ground crew, Wood says he yelled out to McCarthy to "get the boys ready to kick some butt this weekend."
A few days later, Wood was fired from the franchise he loves.
Wood says his supervisors thought he told McCarthy not to lay an egg, or something similar.
The Packers organization says Wood's supervisors determined he made an inappropriate comment and he was dismissed.
