CANTON, Ohio — Canton is often thought of by those embracing the history of the NFL as small-town, Middle America, but it is in fact a city of about 72,000 and the eighth-largest city in Ohio, which is the seventh-most populous state in America.
It boasts one of our last great daily newspapers, the Canton Repository, the William McKinley Presidential Library, National First Ladies Library and of course is a bastion of antique and classic cars.
Just a little local color for you, and the answer to what George Halas and the fellas were doing here on September 17, 1920 at the Hupmobile Showroom, when they got together to found the National Football League.