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INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay is being treated for a severe respiratory illness and will be unable to perform with his band later this week, team officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The announcement comes three days after\u00a0Indy (9-8)<\/a>\u00a0was eliminated from playoff contention with a\u00a023-19 loss<\/a>\u00a0to the Houston Texans.<\/p>\n \u201cHe is receiving excellent care and looks forward to returning to the stage as soon as possible,\u201d the team said in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019ll have no additional information at this time, and we ask that you respect the privacy of Jim and his family as he recovers.\u201d<\/p>\n The Jim Irsay Band was scheduled to perform in Los Angeles on Thursday night as part of the next Jim Irsay Collection tour stop, which allows the public to view a unique variety of pop culture items such as sports memorabilia, musical instruments and original printed works.<\/p>\n The 64-year-old Irsay began running the team\u2019s day-to-day operations in 1995 after his father, Robert, suffered a stroke. When his father died in 1997, he won a legal battle with his stepmother to keep the franchise.<\/p>\n Irsay has been a fixture around team headquarters since his father bought the Los Angeles Rams and swapped franchises with the late Carroll Rosenbloom to acquire the Colts, starting his career as a ballboy when Hall of Fame quarterback John Unitas was still playing in Baltimore.<\/p>\n Following the Colts\u2019 move from Baltimore to Indy in 1984, Irsay became the league\u2019s youngest general manager at age 25.<\/p>\n The Colts have won one Super Bowl and two AFC titles during Irsay\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay is being treated for a severe respiratory illness and will be unable to perform with his band later this week, team officials said Tuesday. The announcement comes three days after\u00a0Indy (9-8)\u00a0was eliminated from playoff contention with a\u00a023-19 loss\u00a0to the Houston Texans. \u201cHe is receiving excellent care and looks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/freshgigz.com\/realpublisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/freshgigz.com\/realpublisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/freshgigz.com\/realpublisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/freshgigz.com\/realpublisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/freshgigz.com\/realpublisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/freshgigz.com\/realpublisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/freshgigz.com\/realpublisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/freshgigz.com\/realpublisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/freshgigz.com\/realpublisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/freshgigz.com\/realpublisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}