The Associated Press reports on the bogus CV from one of the Fowler family’s more accomplished members.
Two days after he was introduced as the prospective new owner of the Minnesota Vikings, Reggie Fowler found himself scrambling to correct inaccuracies in an official biography.
Fowler, a former University of Wyoming linebacker, acknowledged Wednesday that he hadn’t played in the NFL or CFL, as the bio claimed. He also didn’t play in the Little League World Series as an 11-year-old, he said.
Fowler said he hadn’t seen the biography before it was distributed, and said he had directed his public relations firm to address problems with it.
“I want your city to like me,” Fowler told the Star Tribune, which first reported the story. “I want to have credibility.”
(Reggie’s clan back in Albert Square wonders where it all went so horribly wrong
Fowler, 46, was introduced Monday at a news conference to announce a tentative $625 million deal for him to acquire the Vikings from Red McCombs. If NFL owners approve the sale, he would become the NFL’s first black owner.
Fowler’s spokeswoman, Leslie Kupchella, didn’t return calls from The Associated Press to her office or cell phone. She told the Star Tribune that a new “Reggie Fowler Fact Sheet” was issued Tuesday with some changes that resulted from “conversations” with Fowler.
Just so there are no questions concerning my own credibilty, or my qualifications to be your guru of all things that might’ve otherwise been cut & pasted from The Sporting News, I am asking the CSTB p.r. department to omit the following from my biography :
1) I never actually covered Girl’s Field Hockey for The Wayland Town Crier. I did however, cover a girl. In a field. And then I went to a hockey game.
2) I did not, despite my earlier claims to the contrary, invent the phrase “what’s up with that?”
3) There is no truth to the urban legend that my soulful voice was prominently sampled on Public Enemy’s seminal ‘Fear Of A Black Planet’. My collaborative album with Professor Griff, however, remains unreleased to this day.