Colts coach Chuck Pagano talks about the team's 51-16 loss to Jacksonville, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015. (Robert Scheer / The Star)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It was four years ago this month Jim Irsay exited this very stadium and made his way to the team plane, tears rolling down his face, a painful inevitability laid before him. It was over. He had no choice.
“I knew that it had ended,” the Indianapolis Colts owner would later concede.
It was the last game of the disastrous 2011 season.