Tag: Jim Irsay

Dwight Freeney bestows Hall of Fame honor on Jim Irsay

Dwight Freeney wants the boss to present him in Canton.

Few owners can say they have the type of relationship with players that Jim Irsay has with the Indianapolis Colts. The recent request from Hall of Fame defensive end Dwight Freeney furthers that notion.

Irsay has been the presenter at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony for two of his players over the last decade. First, it was wide receiver Marvin Harrison in 2016. Then, it was running back Edgerrin James in 2020.

Now, the legendary Freeney will be added to the list of players who requested Irsay present them at their Hall of Fame induction.

Freeney was voted into the Hall of Fame as a part of the Class of 2024. He will officially be enshrined into Canton during the ceremony on Aug. 3.

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Report: Colts’ Jim Irsay was found ‘unresponsive’ in home last month

A report emerged detailing emergency responders found Jim Irsay unresponsive in his home last month.

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay continues to be on the mend from what the team said is a severe respiratory illness, but a police report has emerged from December detailing what was logged as a suspected overdose.

According to records obtained by TMZ and FOX59/CBS4’s Max Lewis, police responded to Irsay’s home around 4:30 a.m. ET on Dec. 8 after someone found him in the bathroom, unresponsive and struggling to breathe.

From Lewis:

A supplemental report said Carmel police were called to “assist fire with a male that was unresponsive, breathing, but turning blue.” That male, the report indicated, was 64-year-old Irsay.

The narrative said someone found Irsay had fallen in the bathroom; he was moved to a bed and was unresponsive. Irsay struggled to breathe, the report said.

“Irsay was unconscious with abnormal breathing (agonal breathing), a weak pulse, and he was cold to the touch,” the responding officer wrote in the report.

One of the officers attempted to wake Irsay with a sternum rub, a type of pain stimulus, but he continued to be unresponsive. An officer gave him naloxone (Narcan) before medics arrived; he had a slight response to that, the report said. Naloxone is used to combat overdoses from opiates.

Irsay has made public appearances since this reported incident. He was seen at the home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Dec. 16 and was scheduled to appear with his band in Los Angeles.

However, the team announced a week ago that Irsay was being treated for a severe respiratory illness. The team provided another statement after the police report was made public Wednesday.

Mr. Irsay continues to recover from his respiratory illness. We will have no further comment on his personal health, and we continue to ask that Jim and his family’s privacy be respected.

It isn’t clear if these two incidents are related, but we will keep you up to date on the latest developments regarding the health of the Colts’ owner.

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Colts’ Jim Irsay being treated for ‘severe respiratory illness’

Jim Irsay is being treated for a ‘severe respiratory illness’

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay is being treated for a “severe respiratory illness,” the team announced in a statement Tuesday.

The team also said in the statement that Irsay is “receiving excellent care and looks forward to returning to the stage as soon as possible.” The stage is referring to Irsay’s scheduled appearance with his band in Los Angeles this week.

ESPN’s Stephen Holder also added some information that Irsay has not been seen publicly in weeks.

Holder, and Mike Chappell of Fox59 both reported that the team has received multiple inquiries about Irsay’s status without any success.

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Colts’ Jim Irsay threatens lawsuit over ESPN’s ‘First Take’ segment

Jim Irsay threatened legal action against ESPN’s ‘First Take.’

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay is in the spotlight once again after he threatened to take legal action due to comments made about him during a segment on ESPN’s “First Take” on Wednesday.

It started when Irsay was the subject of an interview with Andrea Kramer for HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,” which touched on several topics including his battle with addiction and his arrest in 2014.

What made headlines from the interview was Irsay’s comments on the arrest, claiming he was prejudiced against because of his status.

“I am prejudiced against because I am a rich white billionaire. If I’m the ordinary guy down the block, they’re not pulling me in,” Irsay said in the interview.

This surprising comment sent shockwaves through social media, which then became a talking point in a segment on First Take.

Irsay responded to Russo’s comments on social media, threatening to take legal action.

Irsay has always said what’s on his mind regardless of how it may be perceived by the audience, and that isn’t something we should expect to change anytime soon.

Whether this will actually result in a lawsuit remains to be seen, but as Colts fans know, Irsay is an unpredictable character in the league.

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Jim Irsay is threatening to sue ESPN after First Take roasted him for his foolish ‘rich, white billionaire’ comment

Jim Irsay is a complete joke.

If there’s one thing we know about Jim Irsay, he’s going to say whatever is on his mind whenever he feels like it.

That’s almost never a good thing.

That’s certainly the case today with Irsay taking to social media to threaten legal action against ESPN because of a segment on First Take he didn’t like.

This all stems from an interview Irsay did on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel where he told Andrea Kremer he was targeted when he was arrested back in 2014 because he’s a “rich, white billionaire.”

Sounds stupid, right? Right. It’s not hard to see through that.

Stephen A. Smith, Kimberly Martin and ESPN’s First Take crew did just that and called him out for it. Irsay didn’t like it so now he’s hurling insults at people and threatening lawsuits against his league’s network partner. Sounds about right.

It’s just the latest mess Irsay has created for the NFL that it’ll need to jump in and handle.

Jim Irsay should be banned from dancing forever after ruining this Meek Mill classic

Jim, please. PLEASE.

Jim Irsay and Meek Mill is an absolutely wild crossover.

When Meek Mill created Dreams and Nightmares, I’m not sure he imagined that Jim Irsay would be turning up to it. There is just no way he had this on his bingo card.

I’m not mad at Irsay deciding to bust out the dance moves. The Colts deserve to celebrate. You beat your former head coach on the road, without your starting quarterback, and did it with two pick-sixes. That’s big dog energy.

But, Jim, WHAT ON EARTH is this dance you have concocted?!

Also, why is the entire locker room hyping this up like it isn’t hilariously bad and awkward all at the same time? Have you no decorum?

Matter of fact: PANTHERS, LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE DONE.

Not to be dramatic, but somebody please ban Irsay from doing whatever the heck this was.

On second thought, MAYBE he can dance at a later date, but NOT like this.

What a world.

Colts owner Jim Irsay with strange celebration dance after topping Panthers

Colts owner Jim Irsay with a wild celebration ‘dance’

Jim Irsay is the ultimate music guy.

That doesn’t explain the moves he showed off in the locker room on Sunday after his Indianapolis Colts downed the Carolina Panthers.

Colts owner Jim Irsay says NFL admitted two bad calls at the end of Browns game

Colts owner Jim Irsay says the NFL admitted to him that two game-changing penalties vs. the Browns should not have been called.

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Referee Shawn Smith and his crew will be persona non grata in Indianapolis for a long time after Sunday’s events. These officials will have to wait a long time for tables at Prime 47 and Harry and Izzy’s and the legendary St. Elmo’s with all that happened late in the fourth quarter.

With 47 seconds left in the game, and the Colts up 38-33, a sack fumble in the Colts’ favor was negated by an illegal contact penalty on cornerback Darrell Baker. And on the very next play, Baker was busted for defensive pass interference.

Here are the two plays.

Illegal contact:

Defensive pass interference:

Both calls were highly suspect. The illegal contact play seemed to show Baker and receiver Amari Cooper hand-fighting about equally. And the pass interference call seemed to come on a pass that was uncatchable.

But those two penalties set up Kareem Hunt’s one-yard game-winning touchdown with 19 seconds left.

On Tuesday, Colts owner Jim Irsay said that the NFL told him that both calls were incorrect.

Sadly, there’s no way to reverse the final result. Also, what Irsay did is also apparently verboten by NFL standards, so let’s preserve this for posterity just in case.

Jim Irsay may have broken a major NFL rule with just 1 social media post

Jim Irsay might want to stop posting.

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay might want to delete the X app off of his phone.

After a handful of questionable defensive penalties set up the Cleveland Browns for a game-winning field goal against the Colts on Sunday, Irsay shared an update on Wednesday that the NFL admitted the ending of that game shouldn’t have been called as it was.

“The NFL admits and understands that they did not make the correct calls at end of Sunday’s Colts/Browns Game,” Irsay wrote in a social media post. “I believe we need to institute Instant Replay for all calls, including Penalties, in the last two minutes of All Games.”

That might make Colts players, coaches and fans endeared to know their grievances were legitimate with the way Sunday’s game ended, but there’s only one problem.

Per NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, team officials aren’t allowed to share how post-game conversations with the NFL go when it comes to the officiating, which is exactly what Irsay did on Tuesday night.

Well, Irsay has gotten in plenty of trouble already this year with his unpredictable social media habits, and it sounds like more trouble maybe headed his way with this allegedly rule-breaking tweet.

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Jim Irsay: NFL admits incorrect calls were made near end of Colts-Browns game

Jim Irsay said the NFL admitted they made two incorrect penalty calls at the end of Week 7.

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay aired out some dirty laundry Tuesday, making it known that the NFL admitted to making incorrect calls late in the Week 7 game against the Cleveland Browns.

Irsay also is calling for the league to institute instant replay reviews of all plays during the final two minutes in all games to avoid a similar situation.

“The NFL admits and understands that they did not make the correct calls at end of Sunday’s Colts/Browns Game. I believe we need to institute Instant Replay for all calls, including Penalties, in the last two minutes of All Games.”

With the Colts leading 38-33, illegal contact and defensive pass interference were called against Colts cornerback Darrell Baker Jr. on consecutive plays.

Correct or not, the illegal contact call saved the game for the Browns. The Colts recovered a fumble on that third-down play that would have enabled them to run out the clock.

However, the penalty gave the Browns a first down and a few more chances to score. On the very next play, the defensive pass interference penalty was called. It was egregious. Everyone watching knew the call was incorrect because the ball was not catchable by any stretch of the imagination.

That gave the Browns another first down but this time at the goal line. They eventually scored on a Kareem Hunt touchdown, giving them a 39-38 lead with 0:19 left on the clock.

So the NFL admitted they were wrong, according to Irsay, but there is no action to be taken. It’s essentially a situation where the league admits they messed up and teams have to deal with a loss that should’ve been a win.

Another layer added to this mix is that team officials are prohibited from speaking about the discussions that take place between teams and the league about officiating issues. These discussions take place weekly, per Tom Pelissero of NFL Network.

It’s a tough pill for Colts fans to swallow. Though they have been vindicated in their disgust and outrage over the two blown calls that played a major role in determining the outcome of this game, it doesn’t mean much because nothing changes with the team’s record.

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