She was quickly becoming the latest “Phillies Karen” before caving under public pressure.
A Giants fan named Nina Miller went viral for all the wrong reasons after their loss to the Chiefs at MetLife Stadium on Sept. 21 for snatching a headband Patrick Mahomes was trying to give to a boy in Kansas City gear, who was celebrating his 10th birthday.
“Yo, she just stole that from me,” the boy, Joey Masters, said in a video from the scene.
Miller and her husband bragged about getting the headband on TikTok, claiming Mahomes went “straight to her,” despite video showing otherwise.
After later posting a video defending her actions and claiming she didn’t steal the headband, she apologized and vowed to give the headband back.
Miller and Masters addressed each other on camera during “Inside Edition” this week, and Miller apologized after Masters said he was “sad” after losing out on the headband.
“I’m sorry, honey. I really am. I swear,” Miller told Masters.
“I believe you,” Masters replied.
After Miller told Masters she’d send the headband back, Masters said, “Thank you for sending it back. That’d be amazing.”
Miller choosing to make amends came after she posted a defiant TikTok video, in which she says she “paid for my damn tickets” and said other fans were coming from other parts of the stadium to come to her section near the end of the game.
“I’m not a thief,” Miller said in that video. “Both of our hands were on it.”
She pulled an about-face in a subsequent TikTok video.
“At the game, with all the noise and all the excitement, I honestly thought that Pat Mahomes was giving me the headband,” Miller said. “I reached for it without thinking. Later, I found out it was meant for that little boy for his 10-year-old birthday. When I found out, I felt horrible because I don’t want to ruin anyone’s little time at the game and ruin their little birthday. To the young boy, I’m sorry that I ruined your moment. You should’ve had your moment for your birthday. I want to send back your headband so you can celebrate your birthday the way you were supposed to.”
The ordeal comes on the heels of another controversy surrounding possession of a memento at a sporting event, when a female Phillies fan in Miami got in the face of a father who snagged a home run ball for his son last month and screamed at him, demanding the ball back.
The father relented, wanting to de-escalate the situation, but people all across the internet have skewered the woman ever since.
She has yet to be identified.