{"id":73119,"date":"2025-05-23T15:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/73119\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:03:11","slug":"carlie-irsay-gordon-expected-to-take-over-colts-from-her-father-jim-irsay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/73119\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlie Irsay-Gordon expected to take over Colts from her father, Jim Irsay"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Carlie Irsay-Gordon<\/a> is expected to assume control of the Indianapolis Colts’ football operations<\/a> in the wake of the death of her father, Jim Irsay, Wednesday<\/a> at the age of 65, stepping fully into a role she\u2019s spent a long time preparing to handle.<\/p>\n

Irsay-Gordon, 44, is expected to share ownership of the team<\/a> with her sisters, Casey Foyt and Kalen Jackson, who have long held their own roles within the organization and were formally given the titles of vice chair\/owners in 2012.<\/p>\n

But it is Irsay-Gordon who will primarily take charge of the football side of the franchise after years spent preparing to take over for her father whenever the time came.<\/p>\n

The time first came temporarily in 2014. Irsay-Gordon took over for her father twice following his arrest for driving while intoxicated, first during his treatment in rehabilitation centers, then during her father\u2019s six-game suspension.<\/p>\n

She has been closely involved with the franchise\u2019s football side for two decades. Irsay-Gordon began her career in the team\u2019s football and marketing departments, then started attending the NFL\u2019s owner\u2019s meetings with her father in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n

Irsay-Gordon has long worked closely with general managers Ryan Grigson<\/a> and Chris Ballard<\/a>, along with other members of the front office \u2014 in a video with former Indianapolis backup quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, Irsay-Gordon credited former Colts<\/a> pro scouting coordinator Andrew Berry with helping her learn the game \u2014 and she\u2019s worked closely with the coaching staff as well, carefully taking notes at practices and wearing a headset on the sidelines on game days to hear the coaching staff\u2019s play calls.<\/p>\n

Ballard has praised his working relationship with Irsay-Gordon in the past, most notably expressing his appreciation for her input at the NFL Scouting Combine\u2019s \u201cWomen in Football Forum\u201d in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe will ask 500 questions about why, and a lot of times, it\u2019ll halfway piss me off, but I\u2019ll go and I\u2019ll think, and I\u2019m thinking, \u2018Freak, she\u2019s right,\u2019\u201d Ballard said. \u201cShe asks the question from a different perspective and makes you think about why you do what you\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlie Irsay-Gordon: The woman expected to be running the Colts<\/a><\/p>\n

From a football standpoint, Irsay-Gordon was reportedly involved heavily in the in-depth coaching search that led to the team hiring Shane Steichen in 2023, and she has also worked with the team\u2019s communication departments and ticket offices.<\/p>\n

By taking control of the team, Irsay-Gordon and her sisters become part of a growing number of women in charge of NFL franchises.<\/p>\n

Detroit\u2019s Sheila Ford-Hamp, Tennessee\u2019s Amy Adams-Strunk, Seattle\u2019s Jody Allen and New Orleans\u2019 Gayle Benson are all the lead voices in their organizations. Chicago\u2019s Virginia Halas McCaskey was primary owner of the Bears until she died Feb. 5 at age 102. Houston\u2019s Janice McNair is also the primary owner of the Texans, although she is 88, and both women have sons who are heavily involved in the team\u2019s day-to-day activities. A handful of other women \u2014 Buffalo\u2019s Kim Pegula, Cleveland\u2019s Dee Haslam and Las Vegas\u2019s Carol Davis \u2014 are listed as owners along with their husbands.<\/p>\n

Irsay-Gordon and her sisters will also become the youngest owners in the NFL by more than a decade. Outside of the 55-year-old Pegula, who shares the team with her 74-year-old husband, Terry, the youngest primary owners in the league is Kansas City\u2019s Clark Hunt, who is 60.<\/p>\n

In that way, Irsay-Gordon, Jackson and Foyt are a lot like their father, who took over the Colts at the age of 37, making him the youngest owner in the NFL at the time.<\/p>\n

And like their father, Irsay-Gordon, Jackson and Foyt have spent a lot of time preparing for this day, a day when Irsay-Gordon permanently takes over control of the franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Carlie Irsay-Gordon is expected to assume control of the Indianapolis Colts’ football operations in the wake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[247,265,2005,6684,6687,7,2004,392,2381,20988,1435,20989,248,267,246,88,6,245,264,9,266,6685,776],"class_list":{"0":"post-73119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-colts","11":"tag-death","12":"tag-death-u0026-tragedy","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-indianapolis","15":"tag-indianapolis-colts","16":"tag-indianapoliscolts","17":"tag-irsay","18":"tag-jim","19":"tag-jim-irsay","20":"tag-national","21":"tag-national-sports","22":"tag-neutral","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-nfl","25":"tag-overall","26":"tag-overall-neutral","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-sports-news","29":"tag-tragedy","30":"tag-u0026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114557760561991608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}