INDIANAPOLIS – Jim Irsay still remembers when he developed his lifelong love for weightlifting.
It was many years ago at the YMCA in Evanston, Ill., where he went after making an overdue decision to get in shape.
“I was a chubby kid,” the Indianapolis Colts owner said Tuesday. “I remember this guy coming in in work boots and blue jeans. He’d put 405 pounds on the bar. That’s four 45-pound plates on each side… When you see those 45-pound plates start to pile up, it’s cool. So, he’d do about 20 reps with 405. I was about 15, and I was like, ‘Man, if I could just be like him.