INDIANAPOLIS — After serving a six-game suspension on the NFL’s Exile Island for driving under the influence, social media-loving team owner Jim Irsay returned to active duty with his Indianapolis Colts on Friday.

He did so not with a whimper or a bang, but, not surprisingly, a tweet. Actually several tweets.

Coach Chuck Pagano, fresh off Thursday night’s closer-than-necessary 33-28 victory over the Houston Texans, claims the owner’s return to action is a big deal. How big?

“It’s huge,” Pagano said. “We talked about it in the locker room (after win at Houston). A lot of great things have happened with this football team with the win and first place and all that stuff. You know we have 10 days to heal up and the best thing is that we get our boss back, we get our owner back.

“We get the guy that is leading this whole thing, so it is going to be huge. He has been with us in spirit so to speak for the past six games, but I can’t wait to have him in that locker room with us again and have him back in the building and grinding away with him.”

Irsay, who stayed off his Twitter account since Aug. 31, celebrated his return Friday with a series of tweets of the sort that perhaps only he would produce within 140 characters.

His first: “What can I say? I could say something, but nothing IS something; nothing isn’t nothing, if I say it; it’s something. No things are nothing things.”

Hey, that is stone-cold sober, too. It’s Irsay being Irsay. And even as readers tried to solve that jabberwocky, he kept firing.

Next: “Oh hell, let’s just give away some stuff to the best sports fans in the world, Colts Fans!! 10 best original limericks about 2014 Colts team!”

And then: “Abby’s choice in 10 limerick winners! $100 and ColtsHat to ten winners! Good Luck and I mean Luck because 4 in a row and 1st place is sweet!”

And finally: “Contest ends at 8pm… 1 entry only”

The NFL suspended Irsay for six games and fined him $500,000 for violating the league’s Personal Conduct Policy.

Irsay pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of driving while intoxicated following his arrest after a traffic stop in March. Irsay was barred from the team facility until Friday.

At the time, Irsay was uncharacteristically contrite in accepting the consequences.

“I acknowledge the mistake I made last March and stand responsible for the consequences of that mistake, for which I sincerely apologize to our community and to Colts fans everywhere,” Irsay said in a statement. “Even more importantly, though, I am committed to do everything in my power to turn this whole experience into a positive event for myself, my family, and the community.”

And that is not counting his Twitter account.