Arizona Businessman Agrees to Buy Vikings

[Scurrilous]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=551&ncid=755&e=2&u=/ap/20050214/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_vikings_sale

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"Arizona businessman Reggie Fowler agreed to buy the Minnesota Vikings (news) in a deal that would make him the NFL's first black owner.

Fowler declined to say how much he would pay for the team. Published reports and a rival bidder, Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor, put the price at about $625 million.

Owner Red McCombs had the team on the block since 2002. Taylor had offered about $600 million, though some of that money was contingent on a new stadium being built. If the league approves the deal, McCombs will make a huge profit — he paid $246 million for the team in 1998.

Asked about becoming the league's first black owner, Fowler said Monday in a seeming contradiction that he thought it was "a great thing" and not that big a thing. He said race didn't figure in negotiations with McCombs.

"He did not discount the price because of that," Fowler said, laughing."

[Lefty48197]

1. The Tucson Vikings?

Actually, the Black ownership thing is a big deal and I applaud it.

[KitchenWitch]

2. Sounds like he is going to be keeping them in MN