Jim Irsay dead at 65

[odanny]

No cause of death, but with him, it could be an overdose. He and Mark Davis both inherited teams from their fathers and just were always having fun as owners. Irsay has had his issues with drugs over the years. RIP.




Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay has died at age 65, the team announced Wednesday. He passed "peacefully in his sleep" with no cause of death stated.

Irsay became Colts owner, chairman and CEO in 1997 at 37 years old, the youngest owner at the time, and actively led the franchise ever since. He previously served as vice president and general manager under his father, Robert Irsay, who acquired the Baltimore Colts organization in 1972 and moved it to Indianapolis.

As the Colts owner, Jim Irsay oversaw the franchise on its path to winning a championship in 2007; Indianapolis defeated the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI. It was the franchise's first title since winning Super Bowl V in 1970 as the Baltimore Colts. Under his leadership, the Colts made 16 total playoff appearances and won two AFC Championships on top of the Super Bowl.

Jim Irsay dies at 65: Indianapolis Colts owner took over team in 1997, oversaw Super Bowl XLI victory

Irsay previously served as the Colts vice president and general manager from 1984-96

www.cbssports.com

 

[IM2]

No cause of death, but with him, it could be an overdose. He and Mark Davis both inherited teams from their fathers and just were always having fun as owners. Irsay has had his issues with drugs over the years. RIP.




Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay has died at age 65, the team announced Wednesday. He passed "peacefully in his sleep" with no cause of death stated.

Irsay became Colts owner, chairman and CEO in 1997 at 37 years old, the youngest owner at the time, and actively led the franchise ever since. He previously served as vice president and general manager under his father, Robert Irsay, who acquired the Baltimore Colts organization in 1972 and moved it to Indianapolis.

As the Colts owner, Jim Irsay oversaw the franchise on its path to winning a championship in 2007; Indianapolis defeated the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI. It was the franchise's first title since winning Super Bowl V in 1970 as the Baltimore Colts. Under his leadership, the Colts made 16 total playoff appearances and won two AFC Championships on top of the Super Bowl.

Jim Irsay dies at 65: Indianapolis Colts owner took over team in 1997, oversaw Super Bowl XLI victory

Irsay previously served as the Colts vice president and general manager from 1984-96

www.cbssports.com

This is sad. All in all, he did a good job with the Colts.

 

[leftwinger]

If an NFL owner dies, team worth say $5B, including stadium, practice fields, whatever.

Suppose it is willed to his kids? Does NFL have to approve?

How would anyone pay the inheritance tax? How much would it be? $2.5B FED & State combined?

 

[leftwinger]

Off topic but the TUSH Push is NOT a football play.

O-line or Backs often grab the QB by the back padding equipment, lift and drag the body forward. Trust me I know. Not everytime is it needed, but in a big pileup they will drag like a corpse in a coffin.

But like the useles USSC, the do-nothing owners voted to leave it as-is! Good bye real football. Hello wrestling or Rugby scrums. That is all//

 

[odanny]

No autopsy or toxicology testing was done. "Heart disease" they say, but the cause of death was addiction.



In the final years of his life, Jim Irsay, the owner and chief executive of the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts, spoke proudly about how he confronted his lifelong substance abuse battle with honesty and transparency, even launching a charity to promote openness around mental illness and addiction. He called it Kicking the Stigma.

But behind the scenes, Irsay, who died in May at 65, spent the last two years of his life in the throes of a relapse that he and Colts executives repeatedly hid from the public, a Washington Post investigation found.

This relapse, and his death, came as he was under the care of a “luxury” recovery doctor prescribing Irsay opioids — and, eventually, ketamine — at amounts that worried people close to him, The Post found. This doctor signed Irsay’s death certificate, stating the cause was cardiac arrest, and no autopsy or toxicology testing was performed.

The Post’s investigation is based on interviews with five people with direct knowledge of Irsay’s relapse, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation from the Colts, who are now owned by Irsay’s three daughters. All five said they witnessed Irsay consuming opioid pills. Four said they witnessed Irsay receiving ketamine injections.

Post reporters also interviewed several other people close to Irsay and obtained previously unreported prescription records, flight data and law enforcement records from California, Indiana and Florida.

The account of Irsay’s relapse that emerges from The Post’s reporting is at odds with public explanations that Irsay and the Colts gave for his rapidly declining health, and raises questions about how authorities investigated his death.

The Post found evidence that Irsay suffered three overdoses in the last five years of his life: in February 2020 in Turks and Caicos; in December 2023 at his home in suburban Indianapolis; and then again 12 days later at a beachfront resort near Miami.

Two days before the Florida overdose, Irsay fired one of his nurses and asked police to escort her away because she tried to hide his pills, concerned he was taking them too fast, a police report shows. This overdose left him hospitalized for nearly four months.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/08/28/jim-irsay-colts-addiction-death/