The Indianapolis Colts fired team vice chairman Bill Polian and his son Chris on Monday in an inexplicable, head-scratching move that left franchise quarterback Peyton Manning - and everyone else around the NFL – absolutely stunned and dumbfounded. "I was stunned, I was surprised, I was saddened and just disappointed that it all happened this way," Manning told ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen by telephone.
Now, Colts’ owner Jim Irsay is ‘looking like a fool with his pants on the ground’ while trying to explain his intentions after jettisoning the elder Polian, one of the most respected front office men in al of football.
"I felt that it was time for a change, that there was a need for a change," Irsay said Monday, flanked by his three daughters. "Bill had entered a role where he was less involved, but still quite a bit involved because of the lockout and Peyton's injury and the losing streak. He was around a lot more than he probably anticipated or I did. But it really was a question about both situations. I thought that it was time to change the personnel department on the football side of things that wasn't involved with the coaching."According to Manning, he and Polian later had a very emotional meeting. What I’m trying to figure out the most though is why the clearly clueless Irsay would get rid of his knowledgeable ‘football men’ while keeping head coach Jim Caldwell, a head coach I keep saying should have been fired a long time ago, like, sometime around mid-season.
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