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Article: Fowler proves he can tackle big challenges.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 20, 2005
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Byline: Jay Weiner; Chris Serres; Staff Writers
"Daddy, we've got a problem!" 7-year-old Courtney Fowler yelled.
Her father, Reggie Fowler, the man who wants to own the Minnesota Vikings, rushed to help his private jet's pilot that day in 1998. The Beechjet 400A was over Tampa, 82 miles from its destination, and it was out of fuel. "We needed to get it down," Reggie Fowler said of the plane, owned by his firm, Spiral Recycling Inc. "We needed to get it down in a hurry, before we fell down."
With his son, daughter and then-wife, Lori, on board with him, Fowler said he wasn't scared. At tense times like that - and like these - he said, "You just ...