Simply the best

The next Ohio high school stadium I'll be talking about is one that is not just the best in our state but also the entire country. ESPNRISE.com picked Canton Fawcett Stadium as the best venue to watch a football game in the entire country. This stadium is special for many different reasons that would make any other stadium great if it only had one thing from a long list of impressive components that make this one the best around. Canton Fawcett Stadium is located right next to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. This is a huge attraction for any fans who will be at the stadium to watch a game anyway. While were on the subject of fans this stadium can hold over 22,300 of them and often does because it's the home of many OHSAA playoff games including the division I, IV and V state championship games. Just because the stadium is used by the local high school team (Canton McKinley) who happens to have one of the most storied programs the state does not mean that it's not good for the NFL to use as well. Every year since 1962 the NFL has hosted what is called the Hall of Fame game featuring an AFC and NFC team in a preseason contest. Using finances from the NFL and the city of Canton in 1997 Fawcett Stadium underwent $4.3 million worth in renovations to make it a state of the art facility. The stadium got it's name after former Canton Board of Education member Jim Fawcett who was a well known athlete and died of pneumonia at the age of 44 several years before the stadium construction began in 1937. When the project was finished in 1939 Fawcett Stadium was the largest High school venue in the country with a seating capacity of 15,000 people. From the very beginning history was being made and will always be preserved in Canton.