{"id":251,"date":"2012-10-08T12:55:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T16:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=251"},"modified":"2012-10-08T13:50:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T17:50:24","slug":"irsay-delievers-game-ball-to-pagano-following-colts-comeback-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2012\/10\/08\/irsay-delievers-game-ball-to-pagano-following-colts-comeback-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Irsay delivers game ball to Pagano following Colts comeback win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/widget.newsinc.com\/single.html?WID=2&amp;VID=23837622&amp;freewheel=69016&amp;sitesection=wxin\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\" height=\"320\"><\/iframe><\/center>\u00a0Following the Indianapolis Colts improbable win on Sunday team owner Jim Irsay gave the team an inspiring speech in the locker room. Irsay then delivered the game ball to coach Chuch Pagano who is hospitalized at the Simon Cancer Center in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was the first time I wanted to go to a hospital,\u201d said Irsay.\u00a0 \u201cI could not wait to get to the hospital and deliver that game ball. He is doing tremendous, he looks great, his spirits are so high and he could not be prouder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Fox 59, Irsay said Coach Pagano was sad he could not be there with the team, but their actions on the field made him proud.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just had an incredible time, talking about the game,\u201d said Irsay.\u00a0 \u201cHis spirits are so high.\u00a0 Just incredible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that Pagano will miss six to eight weeks as he undergoes treatment for a treatable form of leukemia. The first year coach had a large presence on Sunday as banners and shirts displaying #chuckstrong were displayed throughout Lucas Oil Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Colts rallied from an 18 point half time deficit to defeat the Green Bay Packers 30-27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Following the Indianapolis Colts improbable win on Sunday team owner Jim Irsay gave the team an inspiring speech in the locker room. Irsay then delivered the game ball to coach Chuch Pagano who is hospitalized at the Simon Cancer Center in Indianapolis. &#8220;That was the first time I wanted to go to a hospital,\u201d said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}