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Colts owner Jim Irsay's account tweets porn in apparent case of hacking

Jim Irsay, left, poses with former Colts quarterback Peyton Manning after announcing the retirement of Manning’s jersey in 2016
Jim Irsay, left, poses with former Colts quarterback Peyton Manning after announcing the retirement of Manning’s jersey in 2016. Photograph: Michael Conroy/AP

Indianapolis Colts fans had their Twitter timeline spiced up early on Thursday morning after their owner’s account tweeted out a picture of a nude woman.

Whether Jim Irsay was frantically scouring the internet for porn is doubtful: on 16 June he warned he had been hacked, and a later tweet was blank and addressed to members of the media and the NBA’s Indiana Pacers.

Deadspin later reported that the woman in the photo was Hungarian porn actor Anette Dawn. The tweet was deleted 12 minutes after it was sent out but not before Irsay’s name had started trending, appropriately, on Twitter.

Irsay became the youngest owner in the NFL when he took over the Colts at the age of 37 after his father’s death in 1997. The Colts have won one Super Bowl under his ownership.

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