Gerald Tinker is an American former sprinter and football player. He excelled in football and track at Coral Gables Senior High School, won the 1973 NCAA Division I indoor 60 yard title running for Kent State and ran the third leg of the United States 4 x 100 metres relay team that won the gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics, equalling the world record of 38.19. The Atlanta Falcons selected him as a wide receiver in the second round, 44th overall, of the 1974 NFL draft, and he played for the Falcons in 1974 and 1975 and for the Green Bay Packers in 1975. His cousin Larry Black ran a leg of the same Olympic relay.
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born January 19, 1951
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is an American former track athlete and football player
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and the Green Bay Packers (1975)
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