Jim Irsay compares risk of playing football to risk of taking aspirin

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http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/03/jim-irsay-aspirin

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay had this to say to Sports Business Daily at the annual owners meeting last week on the dangers of football:

“I believe this: that the game has always been a risk, you know, and the way certain people are. Look at it. You take an aspirin, I take an aspirin, it might give you extreme side effects of illness and your body … may reject it, where I would be fine. So there is so much we don’t know.”

He also compared to other sports that pose danger, like bobsledding.

“It is a tough sport. It is a contact sport. Again, whether it is bobsledding, rugby, what have you now: Any of those sports it takes a commitment [that] ‘I am all in here.’”

Irsay follows fellow NFL team owner Jerry Jones in saying head-scratching things about any substantial risk in playing football. Last week, Jones told the Washington Post that suggesting there’s a link between CTE and football is “absurd” — even as an NFL official said that it exists.

Irsay’s statements were published on the same day that Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah retired, citing health concerns. He suffered five concussions during his playing career.


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[Ramsey]

WTF! Get outta here. :homercrawl:

 

[LumberTubs]

It always amazes me that so many NFL owners cannot string together a coherent sentence.

Also, was it Jim Irsay who was found with thousands of dollars worth of prescription drugs in his car a couple of years back?

 

[Ramfansince79]

It always amazes me that so many NFL owners cannot string together a coherent sentence.

Also, was it Jim Irsay who was found with thousands of dollars worth of prescription drugs in his car a couple of years back?

If I remember, it was a several types of prescription drugs for which he had no prescription and $29k in cash---that would have been jail time for us members of the peasant class

 

[LumberTubs]

If I remember, it was a several types of prescription drugs for which he had no prescription and $29k in cash---that would have been jail time for us members of the peasant class

Maybe old Jimmy boy should play a 16 game football season and then compare that to the various prescription drugs he was presumably taking and then comment.

 

[HeiseNBerg]

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay had this to say to Sports Business Daily at the annual owners meeting last week on the dangers of football:

“I believe this: that the game has always been a risk, you know, and the way certain people are. Look at it. You take an aspirin, I take an aspirin, it might give you extreme side effects of illness and your body … may reject it, where I would be fine. So there is so much we don’t know.”

 

[bubbaramfan]

Jim had 5 vertebrae and 3 feet of intestine removed and only had to take asperin for 3 days and he was fine. So whats the big deal? take an asprin.:homercrawl:

 

[JackDRams]

 

[Akrasian]

I'm sure the league office hates this. They are trying to carefully manage things, show they are concerned with player's long term health - that way any lawsuit awards would be minimized. And then owners shoot themselves in the wallet by minimizing the risks very publically - which would be pointed out to any juries as reasons why the league has massive liability.

 

[Prime Time]

Irsay needs someone to slap some sense into him.

 

[den-the-coach]

JIm Irsay is dumb, as dumb as dumb can be
He once killed twitter and now he's killing me!

 

[bluecoconuts]

Breaking news: Risk of war is the same as the risk of playing Call of Duty. God bless those 11 year old's for their heroic service.

 

[woofwoofmo]

Heard an interesting note on ESPN that so far this off-season there have been 21 voluntary retirements of players age 31 and under, including some big names, Calvin Johnson, Marshawn Lynch, Jerod Mayo, BJ Raji to name a few. IMO, owners would be wise to keep their mouths shut on the concussion issue, the evidence keeps mounting and it's not in the NFL's favor.

 

[yrba1]

Jim Irsay said many stupid things in the past, this tops it.

 

[Ballhawk]

Playing football is much less risky than riding in Jim Irsay's car!

 

[Ramhusker]

Some people just don't express themselves well. The numbskull probably meant to say, "it's a tough sport. It's not for everybody. Some people's bodies can take the punishment and some cannot. We do all we know how to do up to this point to prevent injuries without ruining our brand". Drugs tend to render thought processes utterly useless. Poor Jim is just feeling the latent effects.