{"id":780803,"date":"2026-07-23T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780803\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:59:10","slug":"colts-owner-carlie-irsay-gordon-will-present-adam-vinatieri-at-hall-of-fame-induction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780803\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon will present Adam Vinatieri at Hall of Fame induction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Vinatieri began his career with the Patriots and played 10 seasons in New England, but he left and went to the Colts for 14 more. <\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Vinatieri has chosen someone from the Colts to present him at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Vinatieri would have asked late owner Jim Irsay if the former kicker had gone in as a first-ballot Hall of Famer in 2025. Instead, Irsay\u2019s daughter, Colts principal owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon, will get the honors at the Aug. 8 enshrinement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means a lot to me, but also potentially means a lot for her being the fact she\u2019s the new owner. This is the right thing to do,\u201d Vinatieri told Mike Chappell of Fox 59.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Irsay died May 21, 2025, at 65.<\/p>\n<p>Vinatieri will join Jan Stenerud and Morten Andersen as the only exclusive kickers to have a bust in Canton. He was clutch in the playoffs for the Patriots and the Colts, winning four Super Bowls while going 56-of-69.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Vinatieri began his career with the Patriots and played 10 seasons in New England, but he left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-780803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}