Where: The Hollenden Hotel
Why: The National Football League as we know it began here
Now: Fifth Third Bank Building, 600 Superior Avenue, Cleveland
What: The Rams franchise probably would not be here today had the American Professional Football Association not been founded in Canton, Ohio in 1920, then changed its name to the National Football League at an owners meeting at Cleveland’s Hollenden Hotel on June 18, 1922. The new NFL moniker was championed by Chicago Bears founder George Halas, who thought “professional” was “superfluous” and that the term “association” connoted second-division baseball. “And we were first class,” he said. The NFL, destined to be called “America’s Game,” was underway …
THE CLEVELAND RAMS 