WT - LOVERRO: Late NFL owner Irsay’s disgust with Snyder set wheels in motion by Thom LOVERRO

[WildBunny]

Before Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, more than 350,000 fans observed a moment of silence for the memory of Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, who died last week at 65.

I suspect around the DMV, there were many football fans who quietly paid their own respects to the departed NFL owner.

Irsay, after all, was one of the first NFL power brokers to speak into existence the desperate hope that so many regular Washington fans carried in their damaged hearts for years — that it was time for the league to jettison Dan Snyder.

Irsay emerged from an owners meeting in October 2022 and told reporters, “I believe that there’s merit to remove him as owner of the [Commanders]. I think it’s something that we have to review. We have to look at all the evidence, and we have to be thorough in going forward. But I think it’s something that has to be given serious consideration to.”

Boom. Nine months later, Snyder sold the franchise to the Josh Harris ownership group.

“That’s not what we stand for in the National Football League,” Irsay also told the reporters, talking about the ongoing allegations of Snyder’s misconduct. “And I think owners have been painted incorrectly a lot of times by various people and under various situations. And that’s not what we’re about. … There’s just a lot of closeness in this league. And I don’t think, some of the things I’ve heard, it doesn’t represent us at all. And I want the American public and the world to know what we’re about as owners.”

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