For decades, George Toma has been responsible for prepping the field for each Super Bowl, and at the ripe old age of 94, Toma is prepping the Big Game field one last time.
For decades, George Toma has been responsible for prepping the field for each Super Bowl, and at the ripe old age of 94, Toma is prepping the Big Game field one last time, right here in Arizona. FOX 10's Justin Lum reports.Somewhere in State Farm Stadium is a legendary groundskeeper who has seen it all.
94-year-old George Toma has been responsible for prepping the field for each Super Bowl, since the first one back in 1967, and his legacy in the big game makes one final stop in Glendale.Toma is known as the ‘Sodfather,' and some call him the ‘Sultan of Sod.’, is "a layer of earth with grass growing on it." For the first 27 Super Bowls, however, sod was not involved, as the grounds were seeded.
30-plus hours of rehearsal for the halftime show is in the works, but the crew preps the field to handle such a beating.Toma's Super Bowl journey may be coming to an end, but for him, it's about the people he's worked with each year to make the gridiron in the big game a reality.
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