More than 4,000 kids kick off Enshrinement Week at First Play
CANTON – The 201st National Football League season and the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Week got off to their ceremonial start just past 10 a.m. Wednesday with a gentle, lofting pass over the intersection of Cleveland Avenue SW and Second Street SW.
Quarterbacking was Grady Crosby, an executive at Johnson Controls, which sponsors Enshrinement Week, and receiving was Jack, a local student.
Starting at the NFL s birthplace at the Frank Bow Federal Building in downtown Canton, the First Play event that followed involved more than 4,000 local children, the most ever. It took just under an hour and snaked about two miles to the end zone at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.