Buddy Tinsley
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Robert Porter "Buddy" Tinsley (August 16, 1924 – September 14, 2011) was a
Tinsley was born in Damon, Texas and played collegiately at Baylor. He spent one season with the NFL's Los Angeles Rams before joining the Blue Bombers, where he often played both ways at tackle.
He is noted for a story regarding the 38th Grey Cup, known as the "Mud Bowl" because of poor weather/field conditions. "As the legend goes, Tinsley, a rookie Bomber lineman, was face down in the muck and water, gasping for breath when an alert official pulled him from his murky grave".[1]
Tinsley died on September 14, 2011, aged 87, from undisclosed causes, in
Footnotes
- ^ Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame Archived July 15, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
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