Professional Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival Canton

Professional Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival, Canton opened in Canton Ohio on 7th September in 1963. The process started with the induction of 17 charters. In 2007, most of the inductees played their professional part in the National Football League and the sole exceptions in the National Football League were the Buffalo Bills who played in the American Football League in 1970, when the American and the National Football League formed a team together.

Canton was chosen as a preferred location for the Professional Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival. Canton played the host city to the American Professional Football Association when it was set up, back in 1920.

The League took a successful start with the Canton Bulldogs and the Canton community played a host to the NFL with a new hall.The original building premises for the Professional Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival had just two rooms, while the interior space comprised of 19,000 square feet area.

The hall opened up in 1963 with just two football leagues. The two Football Leagues at that time were the National Football League and the American Football League.
The Professional Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival had NFL executives with Washington Redskins with first class inductees. A number of expansions, very first of its kind took place in April 1970. Expansion of the room took place and the total place went up to 34,000 square feet.

By November 1977, another expansion project took place at the Professional Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival in Canton. As the project completed by November 1978, it enlarged its gift shop section and the research library unit. The theater at the premises also got magnified and it grew up to 50,500 square feet of area or 4,690 m2. expanded almost thrice with its original dimension.

The building remained untouched till 1993 July. Later the professional Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival at Canton modified again and the expansion took over in October 1995 and another hall got annexed to the present establishment. The building got magnified to 82,307 square feet, with the latest addition of the GameDay Stadium with a NFL Films production measuring 20 foot by 42 foot on the Cinemascope.

The board of selectors at the Professional Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival in Canton comprised a 44 person committee made up mainly with sportswriters. The Canton festival selection committee is formally known as Board of Selectors. Of the prominent media associated with the selection board are- Atlanta Falcons, ESPN.com, Jacksonville Jaguars and WJXT, with a professional team of sports directors and senior writers. Other members on the board comprised eleven delegates and a representative from the Professional Football Writers of America. Pro Football Hall of Fame