[2] Jess was selected second-team for LSU's All-Time football team in 1935.

Jess was the cousin of future LSU football star Gaynell Tinsley.

He also played in the early American Football League for the Louisville Bourbons.

[4] Despite the AFL’s existing for only one season, it had two All-League teams, one selected by Associated Press writers in the cities represented by the AFL teams and one selected by the coaches of the American Football League.

Tinsley later operated a chain of movie theaters in Jonesboro, Louisiana.