Opinion: Jim Irsay died and we’re less for it

INDIANAPOLIS − Colts owner Jim Irsay was gentle, generous and imperfect. He made public, painful mistakes. He did private, precious things.

Jim Irsay died Wednesday afternoon at age 65, having “passed away peacefully in his sleep,” according to Pete Ward, the Colts’ chief operating officer and Irsay’s righthand man for decades in Indianapolis.