I liked this guy.
Posted on 02/16/2005 6:30:40 PM PST by GreatOne
Resume of prospective Vikings owner dogged by questions
Jay Weiner, Star Tribune
In his official biography, distributed Monday by his Twin Cities public relations firm, Reggie Fowler declared that he played in the Little League World Series, implied that he earned a business administration and finance degree from the University of Wyoming and said that he played for the Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL and the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League.
According to officials with all of the sports organizations and official records at the NFL, CFL and University of Wyoming, none of those claims is exactly true.
Monday, Fowler, 46, announced with Vikings owner Red McCombs that he had signed a purchase agreement to buy the Vikings for about $625 million.
That purchase must gain approval from the other NFL owners. If approved, Fowler would become the first black owner in the NFL.
Reggie Fowler's entourage of partners and advisors tours the Metrodome on Monday.Richard SennottStar TribuneIn two brief interviews, before he declined further comment, Fowler said Wednesday that he had not seen the biography that was distributed Monday.
Before cutting off his second phone interview, Fowler said he would instruct his Twin Cities-based public relations firm, Tunheim Partners, to address all of the apparent discrepancies.
"I want your city to like me," he said. "I want to have credibility."
Late Tuesday afternoon, before any inquiries from the Star Tribune, Tunheim Partners began issuing clarifications to his biography.
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The Anoka site looks like a great idea - not only will there be a stadium, but an attached hotel, theme park/playground, mall, and restaurants. Love to be in on that deal.
Great Candidate for a College Professor, say UC...
I always wondered what Issac Curtis was up to nowadays!
Anoka is in a Northwestern suburb, and I believe that there is about 10 acres just sitting there waiting for the stadium complex to be built. Would be financed through an increase in local sales taxes in Anoka County, in part. If you search the Star Tribune or Pioneer Planet websites, I believe that you will find more info there. Looks very promising.
So name 10 great Viking players.
Great hands.
10 great ones? great is a relative term,.. but here goes
FRan scramblin' Tarkenton, Bill Brown, Dave Osborne, Carl Eller, Jim Page, FRed Cox, Daunte's 'Inferno' Culpepper, Chuck Foreman, Chris Carter, Paul Krause, Karl Kassulke.. just some that came to mind..
Packer fan, huh? or Bears? :-)
The vikqueens beat the Packers 1 time out of the last 4.
Let's compare SUPER BOWL WINS, that's right the QUEENS DON"T HAVE ANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO PACKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not just 10 acres.
"It’s Not Just A Stadium In developing the master plan for the $1.6 billion, 740-acre “Preserve at Rice Creek” that would include a 140-acre stadium site,"
http://www.co.anoka.mn.us/EconomicDevelopment/stadium/index.asp
I'll go with Tark definitely: hated what that little weasel did to the Cowboys in the 70's. Eller, Page, Krause, and Foreman.
hated what that little weasel did to the Cowboys in the 70's.
lol .. ya got dizzy trying to follow him..
ditto,, back at ya for Roger Staubach and Hail Marys. ;-)
http://www.startribune.com/stories/510/5240935.html
This guy is a "man of mystery."
I will have to admit that I think Tarkenton is one of the most underrated QBs ever. Who was that crazy Canuck who preceded him?
I liked this guy.
Roger Staubach swore that during one game, Tarkenton went up to talk to a ref before a measurement, and tried to scoot the ball with his foot beyond the first down marker. He was the reason for the change in the grounding in the end zone rule. Grounding used to be a fifteen yard penalty and replay the down. Tarkenton was backed up in his end zone, and grounded the ball something like four straight times. He would stand back, looking for a receiver, and right before he'd get sacked, he'd throw the ball straight at the ground. Since they were already inside their own five, he'd only lose about a half yard. I forget how the game came out, but I know the defensive players were furious. After that game, the NFL changed the rule so that grounding in the end zone was an automatic safety.
Joe Kapp.
'Injun' Joe
http://www.footballresearch.com/articles/frpage.cfm?topic=kapp-joe
KAPP-ING A MEMORABLE CAMPAIGN
`Injun' Joe Kapp spirited the '69 Vikings to an NFL championship
By Ed Gruver
He was called "Injun" Joe, despite the fact his heritage was a mix of Mexican and German blood, and he quarterbacked an NFL championship team, despite owning a passing arm that produced more wounded ducks than his hunter-head coach, Bud Grant, who spent pre-dawn hours squatting with a rifle in a Minneapolis duck blind.
But in 1969, a season that remains memorable in the minds of Minnesota football fans, "Injun" Joe Kapp blazed a trail through the National Football League and bonded the Vikings into a formidable league champion, a family of men whose slogan, "Forty for Sixty," was testament to their togetherness.
"I liked Joe," Grant said once. "Everybody liked Joe, he's a likeable guy. In this business, you play the people who get the job done, and Joe did that."
John Beasley, who played tight end on the Vikings' '69 team, called Kapp "a piece of work...big and loud and fearless."
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Thanks for the reminder. I rate him right there with Jim Plunkett for toughness. The toughest I ever saw though was Otto Graham.
Not sure if Kapp was canuck tho .. could also have been Gary Cuozzo or Norm Snead.. FRan left and came back a few years later..
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