…0ne of Fowler’s smallest business interests — his 20 percent stake in four “Shammy Man” car washes in the Phoenix area — could raise eyebrows among other NFL owners, who zealously guard the league’s image.
How many sports owners don’t have their own share of “shady deals” lying in the closet? (read: George Steinbrenner)…call me sensitive…but this is starting to resemble…what Clarence Thomas once called a “high tech lynching.” Even if the sale goes through…Fowler is still going to be on the hot seat as the NFL, the press and white America will continue to scrutinze him on everything from his business dealings, to Vikings ticket prices to Randy Moss antics. As usual, African Americans most prove themselves from cradle to grave and then that oftentimes still not enough.
