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Colts Owner Jim Irsay on His 2014 DUI Arrest: ‘I am Prejudiced Against Because I am a Rich, White Billionaire’
Breitbart ^ | November 22, 2023 | Dylan Gwinn

Posted on 11/25/2023 8:55:46 AM PST by PBRCat

Irsay made the comments in an interview with Andrea Kremer on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.

“I am prejudiced against because I’m a rich, white billionaire,” Irsay said. “If I’m just the average guy down the block, they’re not pulling me in, of course not.”

Kremer pressed Irsay, asking him if he knew how it would sound for a white billionaire to claim that he was being prejudiced against. Irsay, however, was unmoved.

“I don’t care what it sounds like. It’s the truth. You know, Andrea, I could give a damn what people think how anything sounds or sounds like. The truth is the truth, and I know the truth.”

In 2014, Irsay was pulled over by City of Carmel (Indiana) police on suspicion of driving under the influence. The longtime Colts owner was arrested after failing a field sobriety test.

rsay had his driver’s license suspended, received one year of probation, and a suspended 60-day jail sentence. The NFL followed that punishment with a six-game suspension and a $500,000 fine.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: colts; irsay; nfl; police
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A chip off the old blockhead. Like father, like son.
1 posted on 11/25/2023 8:55:46 AM PST by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat

No, you are brainwashed idiot.


2 posted on 11/25/2023 8:57:55 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
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To: PBRCat

He is certainly a very poor communicator. “I am prejudiced against” as an object is an assault on the King’s English.

“I am prejudged...” makes some sense, I guess.


3 posted on 11/25/2023 9:03:01 AM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon ("Carthago Delenda Est")
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To: mywholebodyisaweapon

But it’s still a passive, confusing construction. He needs to just bash his pre-judges directly instead of making us tease out his meaning.


4 posted on 11/25/2023 9:06:30 AM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon ("Carthago Delenda Est")
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To: PBRCat

Wait. He may have a legitimate case.


5 posted on 11/25/2023 9:06:30 AM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: PBRCat

In 2022 there were over a million DWI/DUI arrests in the United States, they of course were all Rich White Billionaires.

With that many billionaires to be arrested, U.S. economy is doing great!


6 posted on 11/25/2023 9:08:12 AM PST by Round Earther
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To: PBRCat

What an idiot

Don’t drink then drive


7 posted on 11/25/2023 9:09:12 AM PST by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Nifster

Carmel, Indiana is a suburb of Indianapolis favored by the wealthy. Carmel has numerous traffic circles with stop signs along its roadways intended to calm traffic and slow automobiles down.

Presumably, Irsay got lost on the way to the subdivision where his own house was located and kept driving his vehicle in circles without choosing to turn into an intersection leading away from the traffic circle.


8 posted on 11/25/2023 9:19:14 AM PST by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat

In todays upside down cancel culture, white folks are the hunted


9 posted on 11/25/2023 9:29:04 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: PBRCat

Could be.
It also could be because you are an *sshole.


10 posted on 11/25/2023 9:30:04 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: PBRCat

... as opposed to a “poor” white billionaire?


11 posted on 11/25/2023 9:33:49 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: PBRCat

Wasn’t the weasel who snuck off the Titanic named Irsay?


12 posted on 11/25/2023 9:35:33 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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He was driving a "silver Toyota Highlander".

This might have been vaguely believable if he had been nabbed driving a red Ferrari or a Rolls Royce -- but in a Toyota Highlander?

How could the police have possibly known that he is a billionaire, and not a member of the unwashed hoi polloi with a booklet of car payments when they stopped him?

People drive invisible cars like a Toyota Highlander for lifetimes and are never stopped by the police.

13 posted on 11/25/2023 9:41:41 AM PST by Sooth2222 (“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” /"Every nation has the government it deserves.” )
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To: BenLurkin

The weasel who took the Baltimore Colts out of town in the middle of the night was Jim IRsay, this guy’s father.

I will never forget or ever forgive.

But I do love the Ravens and, since I’ve moved to Delaware, the Philadelphia Eagles.

May the Indianapolis Colts Rot.


14 posted on 11/25/2023 9:46:42 AM PST by Fishtalk (https://patfish.blogspot.com/)
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Or because he so regularly violates the law cops see his license plate and no there’s a freebie. He’s gotten busted for prescription hoarding and pill milling so many times he’s basically probable cause.


15 posted on 11/25/2023 9:49:08 AM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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Rich white billionaire with a huge sense of entitlement and importance.


16 posted on 11/25/2023 9:55:09 AM PST by Reily (!!)
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To: PBRCat

They are prejudiced against you because you were too stingy and too stupid to hire a driver or call for an Über when you were drunk.


17 posted on 11/25/2023 9:57:13 AM PST by x (My brothers are Tesla, SpaceX, and Boring Company.)
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To: Sooth2222

I asked a very rich man once why he drove a little Buick Special instead of a luxury car. He said, “I don’t want to attract attention.”


18 posted on 11/25/2023 9:59:44 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
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Ding Ding, we have a winner.


19 posted on 11/25/2023 10:01:23 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
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To: PBRCat

I cried 22 minutes for him, as I did for Argentina’s Evita.


20 posted on 11/25/2023 10:13:58 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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