“This is football heaven.”
The town of Canton, Ohio will be bursting at the seams this weekend in what is an unprecedented celebration never seen before in the 58 years since the Hall was christened with its first class in 1963.
The 2020 year was supposed to be more special than normal. Honoring the 100th anniversary of the National Football League, the Hall planned for its regular class to be enshrined in August and then a Centennial Class in September in conjunction with that Sept. 17 birth of the league.
Unfortunately, the pandemic intervened and everything was delayed a year. That meant the 28-person class from 2020 would join the 2021 class in a weekend that has put pressure on hotels and everything associated with this phenomenal event.