Jim Irsay, the legendary proprietor of the Indianapolis Colts, has handed away.
The group launched an announcement on social media Wednesday night, sharing the tragic information that Irsay had handed away “peacefully in his sleep this afternoon.”
Irsay’s father, Robert Irsay, acquired the Baltimore Colts when Irsay was simply 12 years previous. As a toddler, the youthful Irsay frolicked as a ball boy on the sphere and even labored within the ticket workplace. He joined the Colts’ skilled workers after graduating from SMU, and finally turned the group’s normal supervisor in early 1984, proper after the Colts moved from Baltimore to Indianapolis. At simply 24 years of age, Irsay had develop into the youngest normal supervisor in league historical past.
When his father handed away in 1997, Irsay set one other NFL report, turning into the youngest NFL group proprietor at simply 37 years previous.
As mirrored within the assertion, Irsay “led the Colts to a protracted sequence of division titles and introduced town its first Tremendous Bowl Championship. Jim’s love and appreciation for the NFL along with its historical past, custom, and ideas influenced him to develop into a steward of the sport all through his 50-plus years within the League.”
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell shared this message at information of Irsay’s passing:
Jim Irsay was 65 years previous.
