George Robert Burman (born December 1, 1942) is a former American football center and long snapper. He played professionally for the Chicago Bears, Los Angeles Rams and Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He is credited as the first specialized long snapper of NFL, somebody whose roster spot was based on the long snap, and not other positions. Burman earned two advanced degrees from the University of Chicago and went on to become a professor at Syracuse University, where he spent two decades and 13 years as dean of the university’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management.