This is the kind of sports weekend only Jim Irsay may have envisioned when he first came to Indianapolis in March 1984. The Colts owner died Wednesday at 65.

Much can and will be said about the late Jim Irsay, who died on Wednesday at 65. As it relates to one of the most important things any NFL owner can do, he let his football people do their jobs. During a Thursday visit to PFT Live,

The Los Angeles Rams and the Indianapolis Colts, despite being franchises in different parts of the country, have a shared history through history-making transactions, transactions orchestrated by the Colts' late owner Jim Irsay.

As I look back at Jim Irsay's life and my brief time in it, I'm still glued to that seat in his back-corner West 56th Street office looking at a guitar once owned by Kurt Cobain and realizing that it,

Irsay also had the courage to stand up to a bully. And he was willing to break ranks from the very insular and protective group of owners to say what needed to be said when the time came for Commanders owner Daniel Snyder to go.

North Korea’s newest warship was severely damaged during a launch ceremony Wednesday, with leader Kim Jong Un, who witnessed the accident, saying it brought shame to the nation’s prestige and vowing to punish those found responsible, state media reported.

Irsay responded by celebrating and supporting the institutions dedicated to fighting addiction, by talking about his own history of addiction publicly and finally by founding Kicking the Stigma, a movement dedicated to removing the barriers surrounding all mental illnesses, including addiction.