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Vikings' owner shoots from the hip.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Sean Jensen
ST. PAUL, Minn. _ A lot can happen in one week. Heck, if you're Minnesota Vikings owner Red McCombs, a lot can happen in one day or even 20 minutes.
McCombs committed to buying the NBA's Denver Nuggets in 1982 from a pay phone in Creede, Colo., and he sold the club three years later after an unsolicited phone conversation from a friend in Houston that lasted less than 20 minutes.
On Dec. 18, 1992, McCombs, then owner of the San Antonio Spurs, another NBA team, fired one of the most successful basketball coaches, former Nevada-Las Vegas coach Jerry Tarkanian, 20 games into a three-year contract, and replaced him with unheralded John Lucas.
"I do not study an issue to death," McCombs said. "I make quick decisions. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't."
He played lineman and receiver at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, but McCombs has a cornerback's memory, forgetting his last move, good or bad, because the only move that matters is his next. That's why McCombs insisted he already had erased the backlash of his infamous postgame speech last Sunday_during which he told the Vikings they had humiliated themselves_from his mind.
"I haven't given that a thought," he said Wednesday. "That's yesterday. . . . I live in the present. I live in the moment. That is the moment. Every day is God's gift."
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