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Mar 9, 2009 11:31 pm US/Eastern

Facebook Flap Costs Eagles' Employee His Job

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) ― The Philadelphia Eagles offered no comment about a personnel issue involving an employee who says he was fired over a Facebook flap.

Dan Leone, a former game-day employee, claims he was let go for a posting on the social networking site about the team's decision to not resign safety Brian Dawkins.

In a phone interview with CBS station KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Leone said that he wrote that "I'm [expletive] aggravated that Dawkins signed with Denver and that the Eagles are retarded."

"But then I immediately apologized, I shouldn't have used those words, I shouldn't have said that at all, I know those are not appropriate words to say," Leone explained.

Leone said he apologized to his boss on Facebook and said he "was sorry if he offended anybody."

When asked if he thought his dismissal was fair, Leone said "no."

Leone said he was employed by the Eagles for six years.

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