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One of the most popular, and ironic, insults in a political campaign is when a politician calls his or her opponent a politician. The term is loaded, of course. Dishonest. Disingenuous. Out of touch. Selfish. Even politicians loathe it.
“He’s a politician,” Jim Irsay sneered about Peyton Manning last month, a rather spiteful line about a quarterback who had made the Indianapolis Colts matter in the first place.
It was just one round in what’s become an endless back and forth political battle between franchise owner and franchise quarterback over the support of the franchise’s fans.
Manning certainly isn’t above a little politics, but it’s the holier-than-thou Irsay who keeps taking it...
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