Briggs: Eddie George lived out of a Best Western for three months in BG. He loved it

BOWLING GREEN — It’s not every day a Heisman-winning former NFL superstar with a celebrity wife and a big-city mansion moves to rural northwest Ohio.

So, naturally, you wondered if Bowling Green might cramp Eddie George’s style.

Spoiler: It did.

Know where George lived the first three months after his mid-March hire? The Best Western Falcon Plaza on Wooster Street.

Each morning, he awoke before dawn, grabbed the complimentary breakfast in the hotel lobby or headed next door to Waffle House — two waffles, cheese ’n eggs, grits, and Texas toast — and made the half-mile trip to work.

Luxury wasn’t on the schedule. The grind was.

And that’s exactly how he liked it.

Fast forward to today, and as George leads the Falcons into Saturday’s big homecoming game against Liberty, I asked him to