Indianapolis Colts: Why Jim Irsay Should Embrace Andrew Luck Sweepstakes

You have to hand it to Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay. This guy doesn't own a pair of rose-colored glasses, he's certainly not the silent type and you should give him a lot of credit for staring at reality, reaching out and giving it a great big mid-west hug.

Now that Irsay has watched his Colts become the first team this season to lose five games and look lousy each step of the way, he may have a new apple of his eye, and of course, that would be a Stanford University student named Andrew Luck.

Unless you've been holed up in a Cold War-era bomb shelter somewhere, there's this current race, this campaign in the NFL that has so very cleverly been tabbed:

"Suck 4 Luck!"

There are even Suck 4 Luck Power Rankings, and wouldn't you know it, Irsay's Colts are the Green Bay Packers of those Suck 4 Luck Power Rankings.

Betcha Irsay's seen them.

Irsay's also giving the real world outlook that his team could be sitting there at the 2012 NFL Selection Meeting, on the clock, with the first pick.

That mindset perhaps became a bit more clear after Sunday's latest loss when the crappy Kansas City Chiefs rallied to beat the Colts.

D'oh!

While Irsay was hanging out at the NFL owners meetings in Houston, he had this gem for Yahoo! Sports:

"Guys like that come along so rarely even if it means that guy sits for three or four years, you'd certainly think about taking him....you see what Green Bay did with (Brett) Favre and (Aaron) Rodgers and you'd like to be able to do the same thing."

Wow, did he really say that?

First and foremost, you have to ask yourself if the No. 1 pick in the draft is even willing to sit for "three or four years." If that is Irsay's plan should his team be in position to take Luck next April, would Luck even be signable?

Luck's family is certainly well off enough for him to simply sit out for a year if he doesn't see himself as as a three- or four-year bench-warmer.

Now about that Favre-Rodgers scenario.

You saw how that one played out in Green Bay. As Favre's skills eroded, the pressure grew to play Rodgers. Then came the drama of the Favre retirement and Green Bay's unwillingness to take ol' Brett back when he asked for a mulligan on that retirement thingy.

Favre never liked Rodgers, and if you think Mr. Real Comfortable Jeans was spending his time mentoring his eventual replacement, then you must be smoking some of that stuff they grow deep in the woods.

The Favre-Rodgers saga turned into one ugly mess, and even to this day its evident that Favre still harbors a grudge.

A similar plan in Indy would create a quarterback controversy of biblical proportions the first time Manning throws an interception.

It's all talk for now, and Irsay's talking. He likes to talk.

When stuff like this comes to the forefront, you have to wonder how his boys in the horseshoe helmets feel.

Especially, even if it's in an indirect way, when your owner implies you really suck.