{"id":775958,"date":"2026-02-25T18:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/775958\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:06:22","slug":"indianapolis-colts-carlie-irsay-gordons-hands-on-approach-sparks-discussion-on-role-of-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/775958\/","title":{"rendered":"Indianapolis Colts’ Carlie Irsay-Gordon\u2019s hands-on approach sparks discussion on role of ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colts principal owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon\u2019s \u201cfar from hands off\u201d approach has \u201csparked a debate on the owner\u2019s role within a franchise,\u201d according to Joel Erickson of the INDIANAPOLIS STAR. For a \u201clong, long time, the conventional wisdom was that a franchise\u2019s owner should make the big decision, then leave the coaching staff and general manager alone completely, fearful of interfering with the football side.\u201d Irsay-Gordon \u201cbelieves deeply in letting her people do their jobs,\u201d so her involvement in the football side consists of \u201cmonitoring, rather than making decisions.\u201d Irsay-Gordon said when she is down on the sidelines during games, she is \u201cable to see the different dynamics.\u201d ESPN\u2019s Pat McAfee on Tuesday during a panel at the NFL Women\u2019s Forum devoted to how ownership views the league said Irsay-Gordon\u2019s approach \u201cshould be the new normal.\u201d Erickson noted the panel included Irsay-Gordon and her sister, Colts co-owner and Chief Brand Officer Kalen Jackson, and McAfee was \u201ceager to explore\u201d how their presence has \u201csparked a conversation about how an owner should run the team.\u201d Irsay-Gordon has been involved on the football side for a decade, while Jackson has been the \u201cdriving force behind the team\u2019s signature philanthropic project, Kicking the Stigma, ever since it launched.\u201d NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell kicked off the NFL Women\u2019s Forum on Tuesday by \u201cannouncing a $10,000 donation\u201d to the project (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 2\/24<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colts principal owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon\u2019s \u201cfar from hands off\u201d approach has \u201csparked a debate on the owner\u2019s role…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,2381,10578,6],"class_list":["post-775958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-indianapolis-colts","tag-colts","tag-football","tag-indianapolis","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-indianapoliscolts","tag-leadership","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116132603196337213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775958","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=775958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}