Eddie George: Plans to Practice LA?

By Erik Skindrud, landscapearchitect.com

Football running back Eddie George has played nine seasons in the NFL and is looking towards the next stage of his career.

The regular ?EUR??,,????'?????<

That's the plan, Dick McBride of the landscape architecture and planning firm The EDGE Group, told landscapearchitect.com. (The firm features the first two letters of its celebrity cofounder's first and last names.)

George, who won a Heisman Trophy playing at Ohio State University, helped create the Columbus, Ohio-based business venture in 2003. From a staff of five, it's already grown to 15-people, including eight licensed landscape architects and six landscape architecture grads, including George.

?EUR??,,????'?????<

George played for the Dallas Cowboys this past season and is currently a free agent.

In May 2004, George told the Nashville, Tennessean about his ties to the landscape architecture profession

?EUR??,,????'?????<

The NFL's Eddie George helped draw up plans for a redesigned Jesse Owens Plaza at Ohio State University's football stadium.

In terms of design, George has contributed ideas to plans for a redesigned Jesse Owens Plaza at Ohio State University's stadium, the school where he studied landscape architecture and won the most prestigious award in college football.

?EUR??,,????'?????<

But does George plan to work as a landscape architect? The answer to that is up in the air.

?EUR??,,????'?????<