The CRAZIEST Moment of Robert Irsay's Career

After a 1978 game between the Baltimore Colts and Cleveland Browns, Colts owner Robert Irsay (Bob Irsay) announced that he was firing every single assistant coach on the staff... even though he had not discussed this whatsoever with head coach Ted Marchibroda. This is the story behind why Irsay did this, as well as his eccentric history as the owner of the Colts, and the aftermath of this announcement
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[@denisceballos9745]

Rest In Peace Howard Schnellenberger who passed away just recently.

[@ericveneto1593]

OF COURSE it's Bob Irsay!

[@Briguy75]

Brian Sipe finished the game against the Colts with a 150.6 passer rating, which is slightly better than if he had spiked the ball on every play......

[@aaronholcomb237]

7.7 points shy of perfection.

[@davidozab2753]

Nothing is crazier than moving your team in the middle of the night and dodging the Maryland state police hours before the state took over the franchise through eminent domain.

[@teen_laqueefa]

Honestly glad he got out before that govt. Overreach.

[@Nerevarine420]

@@teen_laqueefa right who says they can legally steal a team you own ridiculous

[@SteelerFanInRI]

"He might be the most eccentric owner the NFL has ever had." Uh, AL DAVIS WOULD LIKE A WORD, SIR.

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

It’s either him or Irsay. I’m giving the edge to Irsay personally, just because for all his eccentricity, for the most part, Al Davis knew what he was doing. He had a method to his madness I’m not quite sure what Irsay was doing half the time

[@SteelerFanInRI]

@@OfficialJaguarGator9 True; as you did point out in the video, Irsay basically ran the Colts into the ground from day 1.

[@wcjohnson123]

At least Al Davis spent the majority of his adult life in and around football

[@bearstown19show]

@@OfficialJaguarGator9 l

[@mrmoose6619]

I believe it was only in the mid-80's did Raider Al begin to lose it... mostly since the game passed him by. He tried his best. Irsay never had it to begin with...

[@jeremydobbs5578]

I have to disagree. The craziest moment in Robert Irsay's career will always be moving a beloved franchise in the middle of the night.

[@CTubeMan]

Almost like how Colts GM Ernie Accorsi found out Irsay had traded the rights to John Elway by watching an NBA playoff game.

[@r.williamcomm7693]

Agree! No wonder Elway refused to report to the Colts. Although I have great respect for Ernie Accorsi. Colts were so bad that Belichick left for the Lions after 1975. 😀

[@jefferyalberter9922]

Apparently he was advised not to report by none other than Bert Jones, who had firsthand knowledge of what a mess the Colts were. Elway also had hard feelings about the team's coach, Frank Kush (who Elway and his dad, Jack Elway knew and disliked when they were at Stanford, and Kush was coach at Arizona State).

[@r.williamcomm7693]

@@jefferyalberter9922 Hey do you have a source on Bert Jones warning Elway about the Colts? The reason I ask is that Ernie Accorsi still loves Bert Jones to this day & of course Accorsi drafted Elway first overall. Imagine if he’d taken his second choice, Dan Marino. I love the 1983 QB draft. Of course Accorsi resigned after the season over Bob Irsay trading Elway for a song. Regardless of Jones I agree 100% that Elway’s father warned him that Frank Kush was a “strict taskmaster” & possibly even made comments that Elway wouldn’t start right away & would find himself in a humbling position until he worked his way out of it. Finally Elway wanted a 5 year $5M contract & Irsay apparently didn’t want to commit to $1M per year which makes sense considering that I don’t think many teams even made $1M annual profits in 1983. 😀

[@andrewpadaetz5549]

The 52 point game in '69 vs Vikings was the Joe Kapp 7 TD game, tying the record for TD passes in a game.

[@tylermathis-kx7pu]

There is something seriously wrong with those Irsays. They have/had bad impulsivity problems and an apparent total lack of common sense…

[@penguinsfan251]

Everything Bob Irsay did was crazy. He should have never been allowed to own an NFL team. Irsay bought the Rams from the estate of Dan Reeves. Reeves moved the Rams to Los Angeles from Cleveland after winning the 1945 NFL championship. Carroll Rosenbloom owned the Colts. He hated Memorial Stadium and hinted at moving to Tampa. Rosenbloom and Irsay traded teams. Irsay got an aging team in a dump of a stadium, albeit with a rabid fan base that he destroyed. Rosenbloom grew to hate the Coliseum and seeing a division champ play in front of over 30K empty seats at home games. The Colts moved to Indy, who built a new stadium while Baltimore dithered. The Rams went to St. Louis, where they sold out until Kroenke bought the team and sabotaged them as a pretense to return to LA Maryland put together a plan to build a new stadium and lured the Browns.

[@boogitybear2283]

It was a wise move. The Browns old or new are a joke. Even the team name is lame.

[@TigerWoodsLibido]

The NFL long-gamed this whole thing to get them back close to Dayton where they started.

[@Chris-Rife]

Jim Irsay really runs the team in a similar manner. Generational wealth is real in major sport team ownership.

[@boogitybear2283]

Say what you want about the Browns moving to Baltimore. Baltimore moving to Indy was 10 times worse.

[@Nerevarine420]

So basically you just don't care about browns fans lmao. Raves fans being hypocritical? No never lmao

[@Fireyninjadog]

And then irsay rehired Marchibroda in 1992

[@Fireyninjadog]

Brian sipe in 1978-1980 was a great qb. 78 tds, and average of 26 td passes a year in that span, and the browns went 28-20 in those 3 years, never having a losing season in those years

[@GetBenched2010]

This is what happens when your league is structured in such a way that you can make more money off a 0-16 team than a Super Bowl winner.

[@marqueswilliams345]

And his son his a chip off of the old block

[@123abcDamion]

His son did something crazy too today😂😂😂

[@masonorosco1090]

You got to admit that even though Jim Ursay had his issues with addiction he was more level headed then his dad was. It was one thing that Robert Ursay was a raging alcoholic in private but it was quite another when his drunken behavior bled into the work place. His behavior in the workplace would've never been allowed today.

[@123abcDamion]

@masonorosco1090 Exactly, Jim might have substance abuse issues, but he never lets it get in the way of his team.

[@jamespowell9008]

When Irsay took over the Baltimore,the Colts image was destroyed and the team went down and he wanted to move that team out of Baltimore years before they moved.I am from Baltimore and I was born in 1961 and my first game my stepdad took me to was in 1972 the Jets vs Colts at memorial stadium in Baltimore.My stepdad was a Colts finatic and had been following the Colts since they had won the 58 championship.When the Colts moved out of Baltimore my stepdad starting getting into bad health and finally in 1986 my stepdad passed away.

[@boogitybear2283]

I sometimes wonder if Baltimore had the chance to get the Colts back would they accept? The catch is they have to move the Ravens. I say keep the Ravens!

[@HamburgerHelperDeath]

@@boogitybear2283 The Colts have been in Indy longer than they were ever in Baltimore. Time to move on.

[@TigerWoodsLibido]

The NFL wanted them back close to Dayton where they started…

[@michaelkunkel6264]

I don't think you ever really move on with a team like the Colts and the love affair this city had with them. That goofball Irsay destroyed the team, and ripped it away from the fans and this city, but I'd be willing to bet that it was a parting gift from Carroll Rosenbloom. Rosenbloom had to know that Irsay was an irrational nut job who would decimate the Colts and the team history. I'm not convinced that Rosenbloom would do that to Baltimore on purpose, because I think he was more pissed at Shula, but he had to at least have an inkling that something would come about with Irsay at the helm. before this kneeling crap I was a fan of the Ravens and loved NFL football, buy nowadays, I live with my Baltimore Colts memories. I'm one that will never move on.

[@jamespowell9008]

The city of Baltimore have the Ravens now,but realistically that city will never fully recover from what that jerk Irsay did. All he did was shit on the on Baltimore

[@chriswoodsports]

U mean it wasn’t moving the Colts out of Baltimore?? Come on now!!

[@edwardlozano8807]

So it was no wonder that John Elway didn't want to play there!

[@chicagojeff]

It's pretty well documented that the man had a raging alcohol issue.

[@Davepool-hs7vr]

Robert Irsay challenged Tony Siragusa to a drinking game once.

[@patrickfarrell5615]

Alcohol is a helluva drug

[@dumisatonyjohnson8145]

John Unitas is one of the greatest Quarterbacks to ever play the game of pro football 🏈 Bob Irsay trades his greatest player out of Baltimore to San Diego two years after the colts defeated Dallas in SBV (1970)

[@arthurhall8238]

Unitas was done by 72

[@Joseph-cu8lg]

irsay wasn't crazy, he was drunk all the time . Heavily drunk. So he'd do crazy stuff (like being angry at Baltimore when they worried he was moving the team after he leave his word he'd stay" ), sober up and back pedal

[@fredleeland2464]

Reason this team was terrible in Indianapolis until Harbaugh brought stability and Manning made us forget

[@jamespowell9008]

I am from Baltimore and you people do not know what you talking about.First of all the owner of the Redskins at that time Jack Kent Cook did not want a team in Baltimore and he had been convincing Irsey and NFL owners to move to Colts out of Baltimore for years before they moved.The Washington, DC area has always been jealous of the rich sports tradition in Baltimore with the competitive nature of the Orioles and Colts.They took the Bullets from Baltimore in 1974 and that tells a lot and they blocked Baltimore from getting an expansion team and now the owner of the Nationals are trying to get the Orioles to move out of Baltimore. Nationals and the Orioles have been to court for control of the MASN network in that area.

[@jamespowell9008]

Washington, DC do not want any sports franchise in Baltimore and they was really jealous of Baltimore when they was winning NFL championships in 1958 and 1959 and the Orioles and Colts dominance in the 70s.They wanted an NBA team and the NBA would not grant them a team,so the took the Bullets out of Baltimore. They was really jealous of the greatness of Johnny Unitas and the great Orioles teams.They had MLB team at once and they was called the Senators

[@NJGuy1973]

2:16 "said something sarcastic" According to SI, Schellenberger told Irsay to, in the magazine's words, "attempt an anatomical impossibility."

[@jamespowell9008]

I understand

[@KMcNally117]

15,476 days ago 42 years, 4 months, 15 days ago Owners are strange people. They can't be reasoned with. Kind of like SCOTT.

[@targettoad691]

Just propose to him already

[@KMcNally117]

@@targettoad691 I did he didn't reply. I asked him if he remembers my proposal. He replied "1 year ago."

[@ciesaro]

There have been more than one crazy moments in Robert Irsay's career

[@karlcooper8460]

Ted marchibroda always had that worried look on his face but if I had a boss like irsay I guess I would look worried all the time myself.

[@jamespowell9008]

The colts was Baltimore and Baltimore was the Colts,My stepdad has been dead for 37 years and I really believe after the Colts moved out of Baltimore,my stepdad heart was broken and it hurt him real bad.My stepdad really loved those Colts and I remember as a kid,he would always buy seasons tickets and he always talked about Lenny Moore/Johnny Unitas/Raymond Berry and Big Daddy Lipscomb and all the Colts greats.When the Colts moved out of Baltimore,it was like taking a baby from it's mother.

[@c71score]

2:19 cough cough Jerry Jones cough cough.

[@markgraham2312]

Marty Domres was a terrible quarterback; Bert Jones wasn't. You did tell how Erasy acquired the Colts. When Dan Reeves, the owner of the Rams, and no not that Dan Reeves, running back of the Cowboys and head coach of Broncos, died, Ersay bought the Rams from the estate of Dan Reeves. And then TRADED the Rams to Carrol Rosenbloom, owner of the Colts, for the Colts. That has never happened before or since. Oh, nice Hill Street Blues reference, Captain Freedom.

[@deathtowrestling2518]

"I have not any intention of moving the goddamn team"

[@kevinlawrence8580]

This man broke the hearts of the fans of the Baltimore Colts. This jerk wad took the team away from them like a "thief in the night".

[@TigerWoodsLibido]

Depler took them from Dayton. Tho the guys there were utterly uncompetitive and they had no choice but to bounce between big cities to survive. Finally back close to Dayton in Indianapolis.

[@kevinlawrence8580]

Robert Irsay. He was Jerry Jones before Jerry Jones

[@lonniestephens6254]

If the Colts were to stay in Baltimore the fans would have been proud.

[@karlcooper8460]

McCafferty was only in his early 50s he looked awfully damn old didn't he? But if I worked for a boss like irsay I would to and by the way he came here to Detroit after sb5 coached for 1rear and dropped dead from a heart attack.

[@r.williamcomm7693]

Anyone else have a hard time hearing the words on this one? Talking just a little too quickly w/words running together & music a little too loud for me. Then again the fact that I remember these games might mean I’m old & losing my hearing. 😀

[@targettoad691]

Same. The music is too loud

[@r.williamcomm7693]

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[@kingrama2727]

Nah, you’re old

[@r.williamcomm7693]

@@kingrama2727 Yes definitely old. Just got confirmation that my hearing is getting worse. Lol 😂

[@j.p.pelzman7481]

I had to turn my volume up. The sound mix seems a bit off. But first, we need some context...

[@kevinlawrence8580]

The Baltimore Colts were my favorite team back in the day

[@scottconner7930]

43 Years Ago

[@wolfgangvonheilman6886]

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