Background
Ted Dushinski was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1943.
Ted Dushinski was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1943.
He continued playing senior hockey during the off-season even after joining a pro football team, only stopping when football coach Eagle Keys requested it in case of injury. Dushinski played junior football with the Saskatoon Hilltops before joining the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1965. He also played in the 55th Grey Cup of 1967 and the 57th Grey Cup of 1969, losses to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Ottawa, respectively.
Dushinski was elected to the All Star Team in 1972.
Leaving the Saskatchewan team after eleven seasons, he joined the British Columbia Lions from 1976 to 1977. He decided to retire after the "77 season for business and family reasons, stating in an 1978 interview with the Saskatoon StarPhoenix that he wanted to "sever my relationships with football with good feelings the game has treated me well and I decided to walk away from it gracefully." The couple have a son, Thad.
In 1983 they moved to Nashville, Tennessee and were living in Antioch before his death. He died of lung cancer in 2005, at the age of 61.