The former owner of the Indianapolis Colts, Jim Irsay, died at the age of 65, the team announced Wednesday.
Irsay’s father bought the team in 1972, when they still played in Baltimore, for $ 12 million and transferred to the team in 1984.
Irsay was the general manager of the team from 1982 to 1996 and became the young NFL owner at 37, shortly after his father’s death in 1997.
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Irsay had several health problems over the years and fought against drug addiction and alcohol, once admitting her leg to rehabilitate “at least 15 times.”
The colts announced in January 2024 that Irsay was being treated by a “serious respiratory disease.” That February, hey published in X, previously Twitter, which was “In the cast.”
“It’s a long path and you have to be patient. The good news is that everything is going well,” a hospitalized Irsay He said that march After he underwent a procedure in his right leg.
Irsay said at that time that he had undergone “26 surgeries in the last seven years.”
In December 2023, the police were called to Irsay’s house around 4:30 am and found it in bed without oversive and cold duration of what the authorities called a “overdose suspicious.”
“It was an overdose,” Irsay said Fox 59 in Indianapolis.
“I don’t know why, when you have your name in the newspaper in the past, people throw it quickly. I don’t pay so much, but I don’t think it’s fair.”
Irsay was arrested in 2014 and declared himself guilty of operating while he was intoxicated (OWI), which led to a six -games suspension and a fine of $ 500,000 of the NFL. He said his judgment was partly due to being a white billionaire.
Irsay Tok owned by the Colts in 1995 after a legal battle after the death of his father. Since then, the colts had great success with Peyton Manning like their quartback, but they have a leg in the flow since Manning left the team and Andrew Luck withdrew abruptly.
On his mandate executing the daily operations of the organization, Irsay won 258 games, the fourth one in the NFL in that period. He also won 10 division titles, it was 1-1 in Super Bowls and reached the playoffs 18 times.
Three daughters and 10 granddaughters survive. He and his ex -wife divorced in 2013.
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