Jim Irsay passed away peacefully in his sleep, the team said in a statement. His oldest of three daughters, Carlie Irsay-Gordon, is expected to assume principal ownership duties of the team. Full story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/520...

My sympathies to his family. However, few in Baltimore will morn the passing of an Irsay; until the Colts stop wallowing in stolen valor, they will remain an embarrassment to the NFL. New owner should start by removing the Unitas statue.

Wow, screen name definitely checks out…

Is a Baltimore fan really calling out an owner who moved his team to a new City? This Browns fan is curious

Yes. Irsay's cowardly, middle-of-the night move led to the NFL deciding that no city should ever be treated like that again. Thus Cleveland got to keep the name, records, history, glory, etc. As they should have.

Peyton Manning, Johnny Unitas, what's the diff? *ahem*

DNA is a bitch.

Did one good thing as an owner… hired Bill Polian.

Hate it when younger people than I suddenly pass away. It's a bit scary when I've put off so many things.

🙏🙏🙏🙏

Okay, so.

RIP Jim

Too young

🕯️Peace & comfort to his family, friends & colleagues.

Alcohol will kill you eventually

Can we trade Irsay for the Traitor in Chief?

With everything he was addicted to, I'm surprised he made it to 65.

Live hard die young

From that picture looks like he was on a 2 week binge drinking booze cruise

🙏

He was only 65!!!

And an addict

Being a substance abuser will do that to you.

i literally said the same thing!

What's with all the people out here pretending 65 is young? Y'all getting paid to lie or something?

Honestly, I thought he was Robert Kraft old… brother definitely had those “city miles” look.

And in football news, apparently the afterlife needed a better draft strategy. Colts' owner Jim Irsay, gone at 65. If there are fantasy leagues beyond, they just got interesting.

Woah...RIP

Druggy Billionaire Bites Dust, The Rest of Us Are Supposed to Be Sad.

Boo boo. I need dinner suggestions.

Damn

65? Umm….sure

Dude was quite the piece of work but forever indebted to him for finally publicly calling out Dan Snyder’s reign of incompetence and corruption as needing to be over.

Him calling out Snyder didn’t do anything. He has no weight with other owners

Disagree. First fellow owner to break the code of silence. It mattered.

good riddance you drunken spoiled prick

May he find his way to a calm peace on this journey. He never found it among the living.

65??? Whoo that's 65 miles of hard worked road. Was he ever sober? Tots and pears

It's better to burn out than fade away!

Whatever, he's gross and burning out and fading away are similar. I prefer a big blaze of Glory and guts

I'm sure he could have lived longer if he chose not to drink, do drugs, and have parties all night with hookers. That's the burn out. He was a pig but he went out his own way LOL

I hope he at least tipped the hookers well

65?

Another reason why the #Chargers moved to L.A. #NFL

Oh wow a billionaire is gone...... anyways. 🥱😒

RIP. All those millions and he's passed. Guess this here poor 'ol retiree beat him after all. 😁

RIP

One billionaire down, many more to go. No sympathy for these leeches on society.

I love how so many non-football fans come out of the woodworks for this. Of all the owners in the NFL y'all really going after the ONE dude with the balls to go after Dan Snyder. You picked the most human owner to talk down on.

Fuck billionaires. We would be better off with NO Billionaires!!!!! EAT THE RICH

Guy was garbage. When he was pulled over for DUI he pulled the whole "so you know who I am?" Routine. During an interview he had the audacity to say because he is rich he should have more leniency regarding the law. He will not be missed.

Maybe it wasn’t a rhetorical question. He may have been really trying to find out.

Yeah it’s pathetic how we talk about billionaires in the US. Dude was a shitty person and a junkie. I shed no tears for him.

Brother the billionaires do a lot of good like creating jobs, bringing economic stability, and funding bull shit programs like welfare and social security . They pay almost all the taxes

Propaganda.

Saw that! 65 is too young for some people to die while others live into their 70’s.

Oh. He looks like he was rode hard and put up wet. Appears older than 65.

Let me get this straight, money laundering is legal if your purchasing djt bitcoin, inside trading is legal, if orchestrated by the president, accepting lavish gifts from foreign governments is ok, if the gifts go to djt, after his presidency, got it, I thought laws were being broken by djt

Was there ANYONE else in all of Indianapolis who passed without affluenza?

🥱

drugs are bad

Read this in Mackey's voice!

Mmmmkay.

It will also be interesting to see what will happen to the Colts? Some truly wealthy person will probably try to buy them and move them to some place more exciting or en vogue. San Diego? Mexico City? Cromwell, Indiana?

Vegas could use a second team. Or perhaps somewhere vague like Tornado Alley.

Baltimore?

Anyone’s passing is a sad event so much sympathy to the family. The Irsay story is a testament to the unexpected and astronomical appreciation of sports franchises. Without them, people who are billionaires today would still be small business people with about 10 employees.

Why is this news? Because he's rich as fuck? That's not a reason to care about him dying.

Yeah. It's so weird for a sport news operation to report on the death of a sport franchise owner. 🙄

I mean it should be. Sports owners don't do anything.

lol

He was one of the first NFL owners to take a very strong stance on opportunity for Black head coaches and top assistants.

I’m shocked! Who would have thought that guzzling alcohol and snorting 8 balls off a hookers ass on a nightly basis wasn’t the recipe for longevity…

Good riddance

RIP

65??

Wow. Rest in peace.

He was probably 90 in drug/alcohol abuser years.

R.I.P. Jimmy, I did a lot of work at his house when I lived in Carmel and he was always very kind and genuine. His father (Bob) was never like that, he treated me like a laborer, not a person. Jim made sure he was not like his father.

It is really something how a little kindness works.

Labourers are people.

Yes we are

Giving condolences to his family. This is very sad news!

Biden was responsible for this too Yeah ?

Yes.

How? lol

Surprising…he looked the picture of health😬

If you'd said 85 I wouldn't have batted an eye.

I’m 65 and he looks like my dad

The most hated man in Baltimore. IYKYK

His father moved the team.

Cleveland would like a word…

His drunk father destroyed the storied Baltimore Colts and then said nobody supports the team and moved them to Indianapolis in the middle of the night. Broke Baltimore’s 💔.

Son of.

IK

He was only 65?? He pissed off more people in that time than most people could ever aspire to.

The bars will likely have to close for lack of business.

Are we supposed to be upset that another greedy scumbag billionaire is dead?

Oof. You made a BAD assumption there buddy.

I didn't make any assumptions, there is no moral way to become a billionaire. All billionaires are scumbags who destroy lives daily with their choices. Stop eating up every piece of corporate propoganda that is force-fed to you.

The dude has his guitar collection showed to the general public for free and loaned out to musicians for shows. When a player retired or got hurt mid season he paid the full contract regardless of whether he had to or not. You just saw some surface level thing and made an incorrect assumption.

Let's just ignore the thousands of lives he destroyed because he shared his guitar collection and was nice to the millionaires who worked for him. I am not arguing with a brainwashed bootlicker. Now that he is dead you'll find another billionaire to bootlick like a good little sheep.

Rest in Peace

I know that he struggled with a lot of things, but I think everyone liked him, and there ain't nothing wrong with that

Seems reasonable to guess that Kimberley A. Martin's not a big fan www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

What was that about?

Based on how he treated her, I'm guessing not everyone loved him

He looked like shit for 65

He looked pretty good for a 65 yr old junkie

And he was so close to getting his billionaire tax cut.

The man who stole Baltimore's team

That was his father.

No. His father owned it, and moved it from Baltimore in the dead of night in March 1984.

Awesome.

I'm going to say something good about Jim Irsay. He wasn't as bad as his father.

Setting the bar pretty low, don’t you think?

They say you should only speak good of the dead, and that was the nicest thing I could think of about Jim Irsay.

Baltimore does not morn you!

So sorry for your loss

He put on a great concert featuring various artists and displayed his collection of historical items a few years ago in Los Angeles. It was free. My friend and I had a blast. Can’t speak to all the negative comments here but I’m glad I was able to experience that event.

Damn he's younger than me .

My mother used to say, never speak ill of the dead. Yeah, no. Here’s hoping he has a peaceful restful time in hell. As far as I’m concerned, it can’t be hot enough where he is.

Any possibility we can thank JD for this?

Drunk like old man

The family dealt with serious tragedy. Accident killed one of his siblings and severely handicapped another. Family history of alcohol abuse as well. Bad combo, grieving and booze.

His old man was a drunk so was he

Rest In Eternal Peace Jim🧲🏈🙏🏾

aww geez another dead billionaire. for shame

Sad. Also sad to see Bsky people commenting with schadenfreude glee about someone’s death. That sh!t belongs on X.

Bsky is no different than X for me. On X I have to block because I am not Catholic enough. On Bsky, I have to block b/c I am Christian. I was just thinking about how neither is friendly.

Oh look another Christian trying to play victim, I am soooooo surprised.

I am not a victim. It is an observation. And...you just proved my point, ironically.

Does God command you to block people who make you feel uncomfortable?

Just those that are being rude and hostile. I am not required to have that on my feed. I am required to not be hateful back. Have a good day.

Which scripture is that strategy based on? Or is it more your personal feelings that you've decided to go ahead and claim is the will of someone else?

Why do you ask?

Because I want to know the answer to the question.

Let me be more specific: what is your motivation for wanting to know. "Love you neighbor as yourself" is the scripture. In loving myself, I want to treat myself with dignity, the same dignity that I would accord anyone else. So, I protect my own dignity as an act of self-love as commanded by Jesus.

By cleansing my feed of any abusive, rude, or unpleasant people and or comments.

So you ignore the difficult parts of life, as Jesus did. In your understanding.

There were a lot of eyes in that justification. Where are you looking for guidance?

It warms my heart to see people finally pointing their anger towards the real villains. There are no good billionaires.

The dude was born rich. Would you have preferred him to blow his money? The world doesn't need more of your purity test approved corporate owners. It needs humans. And I'll be damned if Irsay wasn't a human.

Honestly, yes, I would prefer that he blow his money. The entire point of money is to enable the exchange of goods and services between people, not to sit idle in a vault or locked up in an investment vehicle.

Spending money and blowing money are two very different things.

No they really aren't. Both result in money moving through the system generating economic activity.

66...

I hate to see anyone die. Not a huge fan of his though

JUICE. Enough said.

A lot of upset Colts fans. Seems to me, you ended up with a much better team.

The joy a billionaire death brings me

He did some good things. He took a strong stance on hiring of Black coaches and assistants when that was not popular.

Cool. Still a billionaire

Ah yes, how dare he . . . not blow all of his money?

How do you blow a billion dollars.

You stole our Baltimore Colts. In dead of night. I cannot forgive.

Have you seen the movie Diner? It's a Baltimore master class

He owned the team when he was 24?

as a Browns fan, I get that. Felt the same way when Art Modell passed. I’ll never forgive.

www.google.com/imgres?q=sob...

See, a REAL Baltimore football fan would know this guy had nothing to do with it.

Billionaires aren’t people. Good riddance.

His father moved the Baltimore Colts in the middle of the night.

Unfortunately, that’s this family’s lasting legacy…

oh well

They burying him with a gold, diamond-encrusted tooter?

Sad.

Jim Irsay was a difficult man to read and led a complicated life. I understand that it’s not cool to like billionaires these days, but I have heard about the various acts of kindness that he gave to people. I’m sorry that he passed away, and my condolences go out to his family.

Damn. About six years ago @62yo I thought to myself that I was entering the 'end Game' of my lifespan .. Since news like this keeps getting younger. I now truly feel as if I'm actually in the bonus round ..

My late wife was from Baltimore and hated the Irsays with the fiery heat of a thousand burning suns. I’d point out that we in turn stole the Ravens from Cleveland, which did not earn me Husband Points. RIP Mr Irsay. (Nobody tell Monica!)

The Browns. You stole the Cleveland Browns. Say their name.

Wow.

How do you die in your sleep at 65?!? Karma?

You suffer greatly for six months first, after a bad fall. From all the well wishers on this post. Guess you'll have to stand in line to piss on his grave.

Why can’t this happen to one Orange Shitstain?

Amen

Damn you beat me to it.

I typed something similar but I decided to delete it. 🤭

You are mentally ill, seek professional help.

Says the cult member 🤣🤣🤣

🤣 That account is now blocked.

Democrats are the true cult. You lined up to support a candidate that won zero primaries and was installed by your billionaire plantation masters.

LOL Whatever you need to tell yourself to get through the day, bootlicker 🤣🤣🤣

🤣 you are so triggered it is hilarious. You supported a mentally disabled man in the White House and voted for a candidate that won zero primaries. Keep serving your plantation masters.

You’re nothing but a feeble-minded, dim-witted fascist fuckwit bootlicker and the whole world can see it.

Surprised you can push yourself away from the buffet long enough to respond. Typical uneducated, low intelligence response from you.

LOL. Surprised you can stop fantasizing about having Trump’s dick in your mouth long enough to type. Typical Nazi shitmunch. Thinks it’s clever but it’s about as intelligent as the pile of shit it eats out of Trump’s toilet. 🤣😆

Hahahaha! Talk about “mentally disabled”! HAHAHAHA! You worship at the gold painted toilet of a dementia-ridden, bloated, orange rapist. Given the chance, you would scoop out one of its turds and slurp it up like ice cream, then shove your tongue up its ass begging for more. 😆😂😝

I only worship God, no man is worthy of being worshipped.

LOL. It’s just that your “god” happens to be a bloated orange rapist traitor that wears diapers and doesn’t even know basic English words like “groceries”. 🤣😆😂

Wrong, are you seriously that stupid.... yes, yes you are. Let me guess you're single...

Go fuck yourself!

You are so triggered. Keep crying so we can enjoy the long weekend.

HAHAHA! Jesus fucking Christ what century are you from? Even your memes are shit. Just like your “brain”.

Go fuck yourself!

🤣 you are so triggered. Go get help before you hurt others. You are mentally ill.

Are you DAF?

Says the short bus window licker.

That's a weird pronunciation of patriot... used to be that those who stood up to those starving children were considered as such.

Who says I don't stand up or donate to help starving children?

Most likely nose candy probably laced with fentanyl, the guy has always been a raging drug addict.

And a drunk.

All that money and he couldn’t break 65?

He spent the money on a lot of things that shortened his lifespan.

I’m aware.

When a person abused their body, how much money they have becomes far less of an advantage. Maybe he hung on a few more months than a poor person would have, but eventually the body wins. Hopefully his daughter will lead well, Irsay DID do some good things, may his daughter build on those.

🙏for family, friends, and fans.

Dang, wasn’t that much older than me. Who gets Jerry Garcia’s guitar?!

Hey Baltimore, now’s your chance to take back the stolen Lombardis.

Awesome, one less rich old white guy in the world!

"It's Definitely When...No matter how rich the people, When Basic Essential Influences Go Missing, It Will Be Really Rough."

Good to hear!! He voted for the Raider move out of Oakland

Fuck this dude

🙏💙🙏

One more dead capitalist pig

Jesus Christ he looks 80

RIP

💔🙏

imagine having all that money and the best you could do with it was the colts.

I mean . . . we have a more recent Super Bowl victory than the majority of NFL teams so . . .

I bet the Colts are worth far more now than when he bought them.

Damn, another lifetime to do. Sucks for him.

😪

Sad.

My condolences to his dealer.

Owned a lot of expensive guitars.

RIP big dog!!🙏🏼

Hopefully that jacket went peacefully as well.

Is this true or is it Irsay?

R.I.P.🙏🏾😥😇

💔😢🌹🙏🏼🕊️

Good riddance

Cv jabbed. RIP.

🥲

Dibs on Jerry’s guitars.

Why is this news ?

Now that he's dead we are about to hear nonstop tales of rich guy debauchery .

YOUNG TO DIE

POS

😔

Didn’t he just vote on the Tush push ban today ???

RIP, Jim. I hope you’re at peace.

Someone needs to get some glasses to the Grim Reaper, man…

Is he the one who moved the franchise from Baltimore, literally in the middle of the night so his family could make more money? Or was that his greedy father?

That was his father

I was living there at the time. Shameless family.

RIP....holy, that's my age! Life is short.

This might sound crass, but he lived longer than most people with his history of substance abuse usually do. RIP

Not RFK Jr, sadly.

Another win for Bill Burr. Guy is on a streak!

Another billionaire dead. Hell yeah.

💃🏽

Goodbye to an evil billionaire who inherited everything, built nothing, and suffered greatly in the final 6 months of his life following a severe fall.

Hey ass hole, Irsay did a shit load of philanthropic work in Indy, donated tons of money and cared more about the city than almost anybody. You dont know shit.

Nobody on this thread knows shit about what Jim did for others, it’s like like a lame X thread here

The fact that no one has replied defending this man tells me all I need to know. Every NFL owner is a billionaire. And every NFL owner is a disgusting human being. May the reaper come for Kraft next. Or maybe Davis? Yeah. Davis.

Davis is one of the few families to actually make their money from football. Halas clan is another.

Davis for sure! And the Orange Shit Demon if we’re lucky.

You'd have to be a special kind of disgusting human being to be denied ownership. LOL @Trump

Don’t forget Jones

Whoa, Mike Brown is Also A Pig! Yet another Napo pig baby.

Jeffrey Lurie is a fucking Saint!!!!

As an owner of the Green Bay Packers, I resent that.

Are you a billionaire owner though?

No, I am not. I'm a thousandaire.

I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but what specifically makes Arthur Blank disgusting? Genuine question. His levels of philanthropy are too small? Fake?

How many draft picks can Atlanta lose from cheating and Blank does nothing to prevent it? Not like the company he co-founded, The Home Depot, hasn't had their legal issues on ripping people off.

Did they lose more than 1 pick? Seems bad but not a pattern. The later, wasn’t he gone before HD became disgusting?

Tell us you know nothing about Irsay without saying you know nothing about Irsay . . . Dude was a human. Not one of those soulless suits your purity tests seem to prefer. Had his struggles and yet stayed generous throughout. I'll take that over some holier than thou elitist any day.

As a colts guy, RIP. He had great energy and loved the team.

In Baltimore, we are required to spit on the ground after speaking that name.

He was a piece of shit

He learned from the best, his father. That move from Baltimore to Indianapolis was a real piece of shit move.

That is pretty much the opposite of the truth. But go off. I'm sure your purity tests will make you happy one day . . .

Damn, I was hoping for Jerry Jones.

What happens to Jerry Garcia’s guitars? Seriously the only thing that matters to me about this demon spawn’s passing is whether a decent human being will now possess Jerry’s guitars

All of the iconic instruments he bought at auction ..

A decent human already had been.

I want his David Gilmour guitars

He barely had time to enjoy the Black Strat

What did he die from? He was young.

Colts fan here, RIP Jim 🥲

Saw his cameo on Parks and Rec the other day and would have sworn he was in his 70s then. He would have been in his mid-50s when that was filmed.

🕺🏽🎉

Fuck him! Hope if there’s a hell he burns in it forever

Dude definitely burned the candle at both ends. www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/j...

They caught him with about a pound of OxyContin not long ago, yet somehow, never went to prison. America, chat a country

Well that explains how he aged.

😭

Alcohol looks to be the culprit

Kind of wish they would make the same announcement if the cleaner that worked there for 35 years died. Or the receptionist. Or the person who ordered all the supplies for the Christmas party. Or the forklift driver. Or …

Dude had a serious guitar collection. He bought David Gilmour’s Black Strat for 4 million. Amongst other famous pieces.

Uber rich people doing uber rich people shit

To be fair he didn't have them just sitting around collecting dust. He'd have his collection go out to museums for free public viewings and he'd also lend them out to bands to use in a show every so often.

The irony of the Baltimore fans trashing him while loving the Ravens and Modell.

His liver was pickled I thought he would live forever..

Deflating news.

The only owner to openly say "WTF" to the Haslams when they signed DeShaun Watson to an egregious contract while ignoring his character and moral defects

I would've guessed he was closer to 80 than 60.

Booze does that to a person. www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/col...

I never knew this guy was the guy he was.💪😎 RIP Jim.

Wow, that's a rough 65. But after reading the comments, i see why.

Nothing of value was lost

Lets get rid of the rest of the billionares

I say, good day sir..

I want his guitars!

Only 65? Seems like he's been around forever.

That's terrible. Who gets the guitars?

I don’t know what’s harder to believe that Jim Irsay is dead or that he’s only 65! RIP Jimmy

Harder to believe he made it to 65

65 is old for someone who was addicted to some many drugs!

We lost a legend today.

A partying legend

Only 65? I’m 71 and look better than him. And I Love my wine!!!

Maybe a winning season is in the future

Say hi to your asshat father Jimmy #darkofnight

RIP

900 or so to go.

Every pharmacy in Indianapolis has its flag at half mast.

Jeez dude (also funny)

Baaaah.

65 huh?... Ok, RIP

I remember him getting caught driving around with like 50 grand or something in cash in the middle of the night and claiming it was for totally normal definitely not drug related reasons.

Can you imagine buying $50,000 worth of drugs in the middle of the night. Sounds exhausting. I'd need some cocaine to go get my cocaine.

😂 I always look at FDR looking 85 and dying at 63. He reminds me of that. That's all I'll say. RIP

😬….then 🤣

Gold!!

Every pharmacy in Carmel, but yeah

Jim Irsay’s passing marks the end of an era for the Indianapolis Colts. His leadership shaped the team’s identity, and his passion for football was undeniable.

I only speak good of the dead. He’s dead. Good. #RIP #Unitas #BaltimoreColts 🦅🦅

RIP We saw him at Farm Aid 2023 in Noblesville, he was showing off David Gilmours Black Strat that he bought at auction, and then he had Kenny Wayne Shepard come on stage to play. Comfortably Numb on it. Very sad, and way too young!

Jeez that’s young.

He had major drug and alcohol abuse issues

😂 in that case he lived a long life. I just had two friends that were into drugs and booze their whole lives. One in Canada, died at 44 & one in England that died at 37. The tragic part is RFK jr is still alive with a half eaten brain.

yes but unfortunately JFK's worm died, he/she deserved better.

I’m petty sure that 🪱 was the anti vaxer. Brain parasites are one of the many reasons we vaccinate livestock & get wild meat tested for parasites/disease before we eat it. That worm has done more damage to 🇺🇸 than Trump! It just hasn’t happened yet, but give it a few years & the 🧠 🪱 will take over!

Goes down for a nap and doesn't wake up. That's terrifying.

If one is 100% going to die, that is the best path.

He’s 65?! Holy shit. A billion dollars didn’t give him an xtra day!

Good riddance offspring of lying Baltimore football team and records thief.

🙏