For the first Super Bowl in 1967, legendary groundskeeper George Toma and a four-man crew started a week before the big game, using mowers and paint in garden sprayers to prepare the grass gridiron for sports history at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. For this year’s Super Bowl at the Superdome in New Orleans, Toma is on the job again—this time among some 30 turf specialists using tractor-pulled groomers, spring-tined rakes and airless paint sprayers to prep football’s grandest stage for the Feb. 3 spectacle. The crew of all-star groundskeepers arrived a month before the game with two tractor-trailer trucks packed with equipment.
Read the rest hereFor the first Super Bowl in 1967, legendary groundskeeper George Toma and a four-man crew started a week before the big game to prepare the grass gridiron for sports history at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. For this year's Super Bowl at the Superdome in New Orleans, Toma is on the job again—this time among some 30 turf specialists.