CFL great Tyrone Jones headed for Blue Bombers' Ring of Honour

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· Posted: Jul 09, 2025 12:04 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

One of the CFL's top walk rushers is getting his sanction posthumously added to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' Ring of Honour.

Four-time CFL all-star, five-time part each prima and 2 clip Grey Cup champ, Tyrone Jones still holds the Bombers' vocation sack record (98) and erstwhile held the Grey Cup records for astir sacks successful a crippled (four) and astir vocation Grey Cup sacks (five).

Jones died in 2008 astatine the property of 46 aft a three-year conflict with brain cancer.

In a quality release, Blue Bombers president and CEO Wade Miller said Jones was an integral portion of the team's occurrence successful the 1980s and aboriginal 1990s arsenic an exceptional defender and vocal leader.

Jones anchored a Bombers defence that helped the squad seizure CFL championships successful 1984 and 1990. He was the '84 Grey Cup MVP for his 4 sacks and named the league's top antiaircraft subordinate the pursuing season.

Those 4 sacks were a Grey Cup single-game grounds until being surpassed successful 1986. And the CFL record for vocation sacks successful the Grey Cup is present nine.

Born successful St. Mary's, Ga., successful 1961, Jones joined the Bombers successful 1983 aft starring astatine Southern University and made an contiguous impact, literally, by starring the nine with 17.5 sacks that season.

A twelvemonth aboriginal helium acceptable a caller nine grounds successful sacks with 20.5, a full which was aboriginal eclipsed by Elfrid Payton with 22 successful 1993.

After the 1987 CFL play Jones signed with the Phoenix Cardinals, playing 1 crippled with them successful 1988. He returned to Winnipeg successful 1989 and was portion of the 1990 Grey Cup-winnipeg squad.

He joined the Saskatchewan Roughriders successful 1992 and finished his vocation with the B.C. Lions successful 1993.

Jones was inducted into the Winnipeg Football Club Hall of Fame successful 1999 and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame successful 2012.

He was diagnosed with inoperable encephalon crab successful 2005.

Jones volition become the 17th subordinate of the Ring of Honour erstwhile his sanction is officially added connected Sept. 6 during the yearly Banjo Bowl contention against the Saskatchewan Roughriders.