Jim Irsay was 12 years old when his father, Chicago businessman Robert Irsay, acquired the Baltimore Colts. He was 24 when the elder Irsay moved the team to Indianapolis and named his son general manager.
When his father died in 1997, Jim Irsay, at age 37, became the youngest team owner in the NFL — and, after a legal fight with his stepmother, one of the few with 100 percent control of a team.
Robert Irsay made his fortune in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning business and bought the team as a sideline, but his son made the Colts his career and his only significant business venture. After his father died, Jim immediately began to put his own seal on the team and, in 2007, he fulfilled a long-time dream when his team won the Super Bowl.
Known for his habit of quoting rock music lyrics, Irsay built a recording studio in his Carmel, Ind., estate and has been known to take his guitar on Colts road trips and play in the hotel until 2 or 3 in the morning. An avid collector, he acquired a guitar owned by Elvis Presley and in 2002 purchased the original manuscript to Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road,” for which he paid $2.43 million.
On June 12, 2008, Irsay was inducted into the Indiana Football Hall of Fame.
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