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Robert Porter "Buddy" Tinsley (August 16, 1924 – September 14, 2011) was a
Canadian Football League The Canadian Football League (CFL; french: Ligue canadienne de football—LCF) is a professional sports league in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football. The league consists of nine teams, each located in a ci ...
offensive lineman for the
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. 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. 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 The 38th Grey Cup, played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto on November 25, 1950, before 27,101 fans, also known as the Mud Bowl, was the Canadian football championship game played between the Toronto Argonauts and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The Argo ...
, 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".Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame

Tinsley died
on September 14, 2011, aged 87, from undisclosed causes, in
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1924 births 2011 deaths American players of Canadian football American football offensive linemen Baylor Bears football players Canadian football offensive linemen Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductees Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame inductees Los Angeles Dons players People from Brazoria County, Texas Winnipeg Blue Bombers players {{offensive-lineman-1920s-stub