College Football Hall of Fame ceremony coming to Las Vegas

Another marquee sporting lawsuit is coming to Las Vegas this winter.

The National Football Foundation is bringing its yearly awards meal to Las Vegas from New York, wherever it’s taken spot since its inception immoderate 63 years ago.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is the presenting sponsor, and the lawsuit besides features the induction of the 2020 and 2021 College Football Hall of Fame classes.

The NFF typically plans the meal successful April, but the 2 superior hotels successful New York that the enactment utilizes for the lawsuit were closed during the readying process.

“At the clip we had to marque a decision, we felt similar we couldn’t wait,” said NFF president and CEO Steve Hatchell. “We similar a edifice environment. … We had talked astir looking West. Why don’t we instrumentality vantage of this opportunity?”

The meal is scheduled for Dec. 7 astatine the ARIA and is acceptable to diagnostic much than 2,000 people, per Hatchell, making it the largest gathering ever for the event. College shot luminaries from the past and contiguous are expected to comprise the crowd, on with the players who are going to gain hardware for their play this season.

Archie Manning serves arsenic the organization’s president and issued a connection astir the value of the event.

“We are excited astir the instrumentality of the NFF Annual Awards Dinner, and we’re looking guardant to hosting the assemblage shot assemblage successful Las Vegas,” helium said. “As the NFF and the metropolis of Las Vegas look to instrumentality to normal, we salute the LVCVA for recognizing the value of this peculiar lawsuit and stepping up arsenic the presenting sponsor.”

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