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.

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.

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,

Denver Broncos legend Peyton Manning shares a heartfelt message about former Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay after his passing.

A flood of emotional reactions and condolences followed the death of Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay. Peyton Manning said he was "heartbroken" by the news after spending 13 years of his illustrious career under Irsay's leadership with the AFC South franchise.

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.