George Toma
     
  George Toma, now retired, was a groundskeeper for 60 years. 40 of those years he was head groundskeeper working with Major League Baseball and the NFL. He was the head groundskeeper for the first 36 Super Bowls and Pro Bowls. He did the playing fields at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. He was the #2 man for all 9 venues for World Cup Soccer. George has also done the Olympics in Israel for the Macabee Games, which are the Jewish Olympics. Back in the early years of his career, they lined the fields with white coal ashes. During those days, he never realized that 60 years later he would be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
With Pennington being in the business some 60 years and George being a groundskeeper for 60 years, they have over 120 years of combined experience and knowledge. George is known world-wide and has been dubbed “The Nitty-Gritty-Dirt-Man, The Sultan of Sod, The Marquis de Sod”, among others, so he has to choose only the best seed.