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Colts’ Carlie Irsay-Gordon is facing a new wave of backlash.
Last week, Ryen Russilo ripped the Colts owner for taking notes on the sideline.
“I want to see Carly Irsay’s notes. I want to know what these notes are. It’s very performative to me. I think her announcement is performative to the Colts fans that want her to be the hero for a team that is going through a disappointing run. People could say that I’m only saying it because she’s a woman, which would be total bullshit because Boston made fun of Robert Kraft forever because he brought a stopwatch to a workout.”
“He walked around with a stopwatch and was manually timing people at workouts. When I see her do it, I want to know what, what are you writing down? Yeah. That’s it. What are you writing down so that we have a better sense of what it is you’re actually evaluating? Share the notes.”
This weekend, Irsay-Gordon went viral again when she was seen asking Colts coaches on the sideline about play calls.
Colts Owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon is asking coaches why plays were called in London 😂
Imagine having her as an owner 😳 https://t.co/Wfl1D4qSS6
— HotTakes (@hottakes_app) October 4, 2026
During a recent episode of the Bill Simmons podcast, Simmons ripped into Irsay-Gordon and called her “nuts” for taking notes on the sideline.
“I’m not gonna tip toe around this anymore,” Simmons said on “The Bill Simmons Podcast.” “And I know it’s been a topic the last couple weeks. I think the owner on the sideline taking notes is f—ing nuts. I think it’s nuts. I think it’s bonkers. I can’t believe she does this, and I can’t believe people in her life haven’t talked her out of it. And now there’s this push of like, ‘oh, no, no, no, she’s really into… .’ If a male owner was doing this, we would be ridiculing this guy till the cows came home.”
“This would be like when Vivek [Ranadive] was celebrating the summer league title in the NBA, and we thought it was so funny,” Simmons continued. “We would think it was so f—ing funny if some, you know, rich guy, male owner was on the sideline with a notebook like hovering over and giving advice to the coach. … Even Jerry Jones wouldn’t do that. And Irsay’s daughter’s doing it and we’re like, ‘oh yeah, well, she cares about the team.’ Why are we making excuses for how weird this is?”
Sometimes he can still reach back and fire the 100 MPH fastball https://t.co/z4dbpEAcxX
— The r/BillSimmons Podcast (@rBillSimmonsPod) October 5, 2026