Ful-mouthed fan banned from Eagles home games fired after viral tirade against woman

A Philadelphia sports fan who went on a misogynistic tirade against a female Green Bay Packers fan in a viral video will never be allowed to attend another Eagles home game.

The ugly scene was captured on cellphone video during the Eagles’ NFC wild-card round victory Sunday night at Lincoln Financial Field in South Philly.

“The individual will not be allowed to participate in future events at Lincoln Financial Field,” a source familiar with the matter said.

The widely shared video showed a man in an Eagles jacket bending over, cupping his hands over his mouth and verbally abusing the female fan in the row in front of him. The fan didn’t seem to respond to him.

She is Ally Keller, who attended the game with her fiance, Alex Basara, according to NBC Philadelphia.

The pair told the station they were enjoying themselves at the game, even enjoying friendly banter with rival fans when an Eagles fan behind them started making comments.

“He would start with playful jabs at the beginning or just say things to us right when we sat down,” Basara told NBC Philadelphia. “I talked to him a little bit. But then he just kept saying some of the same things. Continued throughout the game. It got worse and worse as the game went on. We were surrounded by Eagles fans. We got all the attention .”

The man’s comments grew nastier as the Eagles’ lead grew, the couple said. Keller said she lost her cool when the man asked Basara if he was doing well and he replied “not too well,” to which the Eagles fan responded by saying the pair had bad attitudes.

Keller told the man he was the one with the bad attitude, but then he started taking personal shots at her, she told NBC Philadelphia.

“And then he just said, ‘Actually, you’re not even nice enough to talk to me,'” Keller said. “And then I said, you know, ‘What does that mean?’ And he said, ‘You know what that means.’ And then I said: ‘Have you looked yourself in the mirror?’ And he said, ‘Yes, but I’m a man. I’m allowed to be ugly. You’re a woman.’

Basara said that recording the incident is what ended up de-escalating it.

Keller said she was hesitant to say too much to the home team fan because the atmosphere was hostile.

“If it turned into an argument or something physical, all they see is me messing with an Eagles fan and then I become the target,” she said. “And then what happens to my fiancĂ© at that point in that scenario? It’s a dangerous situation.”

The eagles won the game 22-10, advances to the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday afternoon.

Online speculators linked the offending fan to a New Jersey management consulting firm that condemned its employee’s behavior.

“As an organization that has always stood for inclusivity, the behavior displayed was completely unacceptable and stands in direct opposition to our company values.” BCT Partners said in a statement Monday. “We have already begun a full investigation as an internal personnel matter to determine what action will be taken.”

Late Tuesday, the company said, the employee had been terminated.

“We condemn the behavior of our former employee in the strongest possible terms.” the phelp in asdeclaration. “This individual’s behavior and language was disgusting, disgusting, unacceptable and appalling and has no place in our workplace and society.”

Philadelphia fans, and Eagles supporters in particular, have long had a tough reputation that they believe is exaggerated.

At some point in the late 1990s and early 2000s, a prison sentence was established in the basement of the team’s former home at Veterans Stadium to deal with fans apprehended for drunkenness, fighting and more on Sundays in the fall.

This article was originally published on NBCNews.com