NFL Owner Placed $2 Million Bid On Kurt Cobain Guitar

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay is preparing to spend millions on a Fender guitar Kurt Cobain played in the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video, but not just because it's a cool piece of memorabilia to own. A portion of the proceeds will go to a mental health cause that he cares deeply about...

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The item in question is a Fender guitar Kurt Cobain played in the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video. And Irsay opened the bidding at $2 million because Cobain’s heirs have pledged that a portion of the proceeds will go to Kicking The Stigma, an Irsay family initiative for mental health.

“This guitar is big, and it relates so much to stigma,” Irsay said, via the Indianapolis Star. “When you have a mental illness, people die. These are fatal diseases — bipolar, schizophrenia, post-partem depression, alcoholic addictions. With fatal diseases, people die and they don’t choose to die. Those of us who are alive, we’re not stronger or better. We didn’t get our act together more. We didn’t have more character. That’s where it’s so false.”

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