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Colts owner Jim Irsay compares risks of playing football to using aspirin

NFL owners have said some eye-raising things about the league's concussion issues over the past year.

Go ahead and add Colts owner Jim Irsay and his daughter to the list.

In an interview with the Sports Business Journal, Irsay compared the risks of playing football to those of taking aspirin.

"I believe this: that the game has always been a risk, you know, and the way certain people are," Irsay said. "Look at it. You take an aspirin, I take an aspirin, it might give you extreme side effects of illness and your body .