“Interest in the game is high in London, Germany, France and Italy to some extent,” said Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, who envisions a four-team division. “I’m actually surprised there hasn’t been a team in London by now.'
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay looks and sounds like Johnny Cash, attired in black and speaking in a gravelly voice.
“It’s been an incredible journey,” Irsay said during a wide-ranging, hour-long Zoom interview late Monday, in which he veered from behind-the-scenes name dropping about rock ‘n’ roll royalty to his decades as a power broker in the NFL . Throughout, the eclectic Irsay sprinkled in his thoughts on spiritualism.
Irsay dismissed the possibility of a corporation owning an NFL franchise, despite reports of Apple Inc. AAPL, -1.38% expressing an interest in acquiring soccer behemoth Manchester United and Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +0.24% shelling out $1 billion annually for exclusive broadcast rights to NFL games on Thursday nights . The NFL maintains rules that up to 25 partners can own a team, but one individual must control a minimum of 20%. The Irsay family is one of a handful that owns its team outright.
Irsay gets it. “It is a dangerous, violent game. Athletes today are bigger, faster and more explosive,” he said. “A lot of them have track backgrounds and are running into each other at 22 miles per hour.” The Jim Irsay Band features Mike Mills of REM fame on bass and Kenny Aronoff, who played with John Mellencamp, on drums, along with appearances by former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty, Heart’s Ann Wilson and blues legend Buddy Guy. Previous stops on this tour have included Irsay’s hometown of Chicago, as well as in Nashville, Austin, New York, Los Angeles and Indianapolis. The band has also played on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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