There are a lot of communities around Canton.
Among them are Canton Township, North Canton, Perry Township, Louisville, Jackson Township and Plain Township.
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When residents of those areas are far from home and are describing to others where they live, they will simply say, “Canton,” because it’s a place people anywhere would recognize.
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Once they get back home, though, they don’t live in Canton anymore.
I say this because I keep seeing, and hearing, people — even those in the know, in sports media — refer to that big sports building in Canton, the one that everybody in the football world focused on last weekend, as the NFL Hall of the Fame.
What?!
You’ve got to be kidding me!
Ugh!
It is not that at all, in any way, shape or form. It is the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Although the vast majority of the people enshrined there made their mark in the NFL, others came from a variety of other long-ago leagues.
And while, in this age and time, it might make sense to some to call it the NFL Hall of Fame, it is the Pro Football Hall of Fame, just as those in the suburbs are part of the Greater Canton area and don’t live in Canton.
Steve King
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