NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue "expressed concerns"
yesterday about "how slowly Tom Clancy's group has supplied
information to the league" involving the purchase of the
Vikings, according to Seidel & Garcia-Ruiz of the ST. PAUL
PIONEER PRESS. Two weeks ago, Tagliabue sent a letter to
Clancy's ownership rep, Marc Ganis, stating his "concerns."
Ganis said the paperwork was delayed when team President
Roger Headrick challenged the sale. Ganis: "We were
delayed, as a result of the Headrick matter, in getting our
materials -- our bank finance documents, our equity and
background forms." Clancy said that he "has had no contact
with the NFL during the sale process." Clancy, on whether
he will get more involved: "I'm as involved as I can be.
I'm going to be writing a great, big check. How much more
involved am I supposed to be?" Ganis "hopes to submit all
of the paperwork by May 6 or 7" (PIONEER PRESS, 4/17). In
St. Paul, Charley Walters reports that regardless of
Tagliabue's concern, "insiders say at least two of Clancy's
17 investors are on Forbes' 400 list" (PIONEER PRESS, 4/17).
