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Super Bowl ‘Sodfather’ George Toma Regales LVSportsBiz With Stories Of Sod Before Super Bowl 57 In Phoenix

NFL groundskeeper George Toma at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ on Tuesday during Super Bowl week. Photos of Toma for this story: Jeff Goulding/LVSportsBiz.com

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   Story by Alan Snel    Photos by Jeff Goulding

GLENDALE, Arizona — George Toma, the famed 94-year-old “Sodfather,” was holding court (or field) on the turf at Super Bowl 57 at State Farm Stadium Tuesday morning.

“This is the second best field for a Super Bowl. The best field was Super Bowl 41 in the rain between the Chicago Bears and the Indianapolis Colts” at former Dolphin Stadium at Miami Gardens in 2007, Toma explained.

 

Toma was full of joy. He was strolling on the retractable turf at the retractable domed stadium in Glendale, home to a cluster of sports venues like the former arena of the NHL Arizona Coyotes a half-hour outside Phoenix.

And he was regaling reporters with stories of sod.

LVSportsBiz.com checked out the playing field for the game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs this morning.

 

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Alan Snel: Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.
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