After 31 years with the Colts, including 16 as the team’s director of pro personnel, Clyde Powers is moving on.
It’s the type of story we would possibly ignore on the site or put in one-liners, if not for the clumsy way the move was handled.
“Clyde’s probably going to retire; we’ll see,” Colts owner Jim Irsay told the Indianapolis Star on Wednesday. “He might want to do some work for the league office. He’s got a place out in South Carolina. He and I talked, and Chris Polian talked with him. . . . He’s a close friend of mine and we’ve been together a long time.”
One day later, Powers wanted to clarify how things went down.
“I’m not retiring. I was fired,” Powers told the same paper. “Chris Polian is the new vice president and general manager, and he should be entitled to have the people around him he feels comfortable with.”
Powers also said that J.W. Jordan, who worked as a a salary cap/personnel analyst for the last nine years, is also now looking for work.
