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Jim Irsay arrested, charged with DUI & drug possession

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by H.L. Mencken, Mar 17, 2014.

  1. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    The penalty should be to make him stand inside the 35s with a working headset. Hell, make him be the one that calls the plays for six games. Penalties against owners could be pretty fun.
     
  2. Monday Morning Sportswriter

    Monday Morning Sportswriter Well-Known Member

    It also became a criminal problem when he got behind the wheel and put others at risk, if the reports are true.

    And Goodall disciplining an owner isn't a ridiculous notion. It would be crazier if he just ignored it.
     
  3. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Again- Big Boy Roger works for the owners, practically at their pleasure.
    I hope this is common knowledge to all...
     
  4. Bob Cook

    Bob Cook Active Member

    Irsay is in rehab:

    http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/nfl/colts/2014/03/18/jim-irsay-colts/6572947/
     
  5. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    He's fined owners before. He can do it again.
     
  6. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Goodell just last year declined to punish Aldon Smith after the 49ers sent him to rehab. Said going to rehab was evidence that the problem was being addressed, so no further punishment necessary.
     
  7. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Goodell will do something just so the record can show he did, though fining a very wealthy man isn't a penalty, nor is suspending an owner who's not a GM/meddler like Jerry Jones.

    Confiscating his Twitter account or maybe some of his vintage guitars, that would be a penalty. But Goodell's not his mother.
     
  8. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    I can't see what he could do.
    The guy sweats money.
    Maybe prohibit any Super Bowl hosting for 10 years OR yank the combine indefinitely (which should rotate),
    but that's punishing a community for the actions of one moron.
     
  9. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Suspending his idiotic twitter account would be the most penalizing action that the Ginger Hammer could do.
     
  10. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/04/06/colts-owner-jim-irsays-troubles-go-beyond-march-arrest/7368789/

    Two weeks before Irsay's arrest, a 42-year-old woman died of a drug overdose in a condo that Irsay had bought for her. The woman's sister is Irsay's personal masseusse, and the woman was a "former friend" of Irsay's.
     
  11. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    After Irsay's recent arrest, Star columnist Bob Kravitz reported that Colts insiders "for years ... have known Irsay was struggling again with drugs."

    So, they all knew this, but Bob Kravitz never got wind of it, or they all knew this, including "insider" Bob Kravitz, but he never published it?

    The "we all knew all along" stories make me insane.
     
  12. H.L. Mencken

    H.L. Mencken Member

    Kravitz addressed your concerns in his initial column.
     
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