Buddy Tinsley

Robert Porter "Buddy" Tinsley (August 16, 1924 – September 14, 2011) was a Canadian Football League (CFL) offensive lineman for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1982, and was a member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers Hall of Fame, the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and the Baylor University Hall of Fame.

Buddy Tinsley

No. 64
Tinsley on a 1950 Bowman football card
Date of birth	(1924-08-16)August 16, 1924
Place of birth	Damon, Texas, U.S.
Date of death	September 14, 2011(2011-09-14) (aged 87)
Place of death	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Career information
CFL status	National
Position(s)	DT
US college	Baylor
NFL draft	1948 / round: 7 / pick: 54
Drafted by	Philadelphia Eagles
Career history
As player
1949	Los Angeles Dons (AAFC)
1950–1960	Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Career highlights and awards
Second-team All-SWC (1947)
CFL West All-Star	1950–1952, 1955–1958
Career stats
Playing stats at DatabaseFootball.com
Canadian Football Hall of Fame, 1982

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".

Tinsley died on September 14, 2011, aged 87, from undisclosed causes, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.