{"id":91844,"date":"2025-05-30T23:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T23:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/91844\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T23:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T23:39:10","slug":"chicago-bears-george-burman-elected-to-the-indiana-football-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/91844\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears&#8217; George Burman elected to the Indiana Football Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"GiQwpt\">George Burman may have only seen the field for one season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windycitygridiron.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bears<\/a> (14 games and three starts in 1964), but his impact on the NFL is still felt today. He appeared in 77 more games in his career, all as a reserve, but his last two years were spent as the first-ever long-snapping specialist.  <\/p>\n<p id=\"Dm7RhZ\">Earlier this month, he was inducted into the <a href=\"https:\/\/ifca-hof.org\/inductee\/burman-george-r\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Football Hall of Fame<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p id=\"4EN0Kw\">In 2020, NFL and Bears historian, our very own Jack M Silverstein, interviewed Burman and told his story in his article titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windycitygridiron.com\/2020\/12\/29\/22204115\/the-first-long-snapper-the-untold-story-of-george-burman-george-allen-bears-rams-washington\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The First Long Snapper: The untold story of George Burman<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p id=\"Zgeyos\">He was born in Chicago, attended Whiting High School in Indiana, and played his college ball at Northwestern before being a fifteenth-round draft pick of the Bears. He first started long snapping with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turfshowtimes.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a>, where he spent 1966 through 1970, but he became exclusively a long snapping specialist in 1971 after Washington traded for him. <\/p>\n<p id=\"4v0sTm\">Read more about Burman\u2019s journey and place in the NFL in Jack\u2019s fine piece in the link below. <\/p>\n<p id=\"i1j77x\">I reached out to Jack to let him know I was going to write up a quick article about Burman\u2019s Hall of Fame induction, and he told me that when he emailed Burman to congratulate him about the honor, that Burman told Jack his article was a big part of his being named a member of their 2025 Class. <\/p>\n<p id=\"DDfqsJ\">Burman\u2019s accomplishments were his own, but Jack telling his story shed light on something that may have been lost in the history of the National Football League. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Burman may have only seen the field for one season with the Chicago Bears (14 games and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,24529,692,391,14087,741,2493,739,24530,1368,7,29,5636,740,1367,932,6,152,24,528,738],"class_list":{"0":"post-91844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-burman","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bears","12":"tag-chicago-bears-history","13":"tag-chicago-bears-news","14":"tag-chicagobears","15":"tag-city","16":"tag-elected","17":"tag-fame","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-front-page","20":"tag-george","21":"tag-gridiron","22":"tag-hall","23":"tag-indiana","24":"tag-nfl","25":"tag-of","26":"tag-the","27":"tag-to","28":"tag-windy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114599425890836956","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}