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Arizona Cardinals

As part of Hispanic Heritage Month activities, Sean Morey will host a Gatorade Jr. Training Camp at a local charter school serving primarily Hispanic students. He will lead children in football activities and talk to them about the importance of healthy living. Rolando Cantu will spend time at the same school reading to students in English and Spanish. Cardinals players will spend the day at the team's training facility playing video games with military personnel overseas in Kuwait via webcam, joined by family members of the soldiers. Neil Rackers will read to children at a local elementary school while they enjoy milk and cookies as part of the SRP/Safeway Milk and Cookies program.

Atlanta Falcons

Jason Elam will join other Falcons players and cheerleaders to meet with soldiers at the Georgia Army National Guard Headquarters. Falcons rookies will take part in a day of fishing with kids at Eagle Ranch, a local facility for children in need. Other Falcons players and cheerleaders will be in attendance at a local YMCA to celebrate Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of Play, which encourages youth health and fitness in partnership with NFL PLAY 60.

Baltimore Ravens

Ray Rice and Antwan Barnes will lead Hispanic youngsters in a football skills event at a local park in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month and in recognition of Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of Play. Le'Ron McClain will host a KaBOOM! Day of Play at Night at a local elementary school with 300 students, an event featuring a celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Derrick Mason will host karaoke at a local assisted living facility. Todd Heap will visit with cancer patients at a local hospital, working with the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults.

Buffalo Bills

Trent Edwards will celebrate the Bills Toronto Series with a PLAY 60 "Mini-Recharge" health and fitness event at a Boys & Girls Club in Ontario. Joined by Bills alumnus Adam Lingner, Bills cheerleaders and the team mascot, Edwards will speak with children on the importance of playing for 60 minutes every day.

Carolina Panthers

Panthers players will spend time with fans explaining the basics of football, answering questions and signing autographs as part of the team's Football 101 program (9/21).

Chicago Bears

Bears players will take part in Brunch With a Bear at Chicago's Midtown Athletic Club, as part the lead-up to a September 26 5K Fun Run & Walk. All proceeds of the run/walk will benefit Bears Care, the charitable beneficiary of the Chicago Bears. Israel Idonije will spend time bowling with local children as part of his foundation's First Down program, which assists economically disadvantaged students.

Cincinnati Bengals

Andrew Whitworth, Michael Johnson, Clinton McDonald and Chris Pressley will lead a Punt, Pass and Kick contest for local children at a Boys and Girls Club. Players including Dhani Jones and Chinedum Ndukwe will spend time with fans at the Cincinnati Zoo's Zoofari, the zoo's major fund-raising event.

Cleveland Browns

Josh Cribbs will visit a local middle school to kick off the Browns Play 60 Challenge. Cribbs will lead 500 students in fitness activities. Nearly 20 schools throughout northeast Ohio will be participating in the Play 60 Challenge, an American Heart Association program that inspires kids to get the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity a day in as part of NFL PLAY 60.

Dallas Cowboys

In recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month and in support of NFL PLAY 60, Cowboys rookies will visit Mi Escuelita preschool and lead students there in physical fitness activities. The team will host a football/cheer clinic at a local Salvation Army.

Denver Broncos

Broncos players will host activities with local kids at all eight Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver. Players will lead kids in a physical fitness activity to kick off the American Heart Association PLAY 60 Challenge program.

Detroit Lions

Grady Jackson will host a 'free haircuts and pizza day' at the Detroit Lions Academy, spending time with students at the Academy, an alternative middle school.

Green Bay Packers

Clay Matthews will join other Packers players at the team's Golf Invitational, with proceeds benefitting local Special Olympics and Cystic Fibrosis charities. Daryn Colledge will speak to members of the Wisconsin Healthcare Engineering Association, answer questions and sign autographs (9/24).

Houston Texans

Fred Bennett will lead youth football drills and sign autographs at an area Boys and Girls Club. Eric Winston will spend time signing autographs for fans at a local sporting goods store. As the Whataburger Community Player of the Month, Vonta Leach will sign autographs at a local Whataburger and be presented with a $500 check for his foundation.

Indianapolis Colts

To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and increase awareness of the PLAY 60 campaign, the Colts will host 150 Hispanic youth at their training facility for a free football camp. Colts alumni players will talk to the youth about the importance of being active at least 60 minutes each day and lead football drills.

Jacksonville Jaguars

Scott Starks will visit a local homeless shelter and distribute food to those in need. Rashad Jennings will spend time at an area elementary school, speaking with students about the importance of eating right, exercising and staying healthy. Derek Landri and other Jaguars players will visit Mayport Naval Base, spending time with service members and touring the ships. Players also will sign autographs, take pictures and answer questions from the military members.

Kansas City Chiefs

Chiefs players will visit Mercy Hospital's Child Life Department. While there, players will spend time with patients and will interact via Starbright video conference system with Philadelphia Eagles players making a similar visit at a Philadelphia Children's Hospital.

Minnesota Vikings

John Sullivan will join other Vikings players and local youngsters from the St. Joseph's Home for Children at an American Heart Association PLAY 60 Challenge assembly. Players will lead kids through a series of drills designed to teach the basics of football. The event is also in conjunction with Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of Play (9/26), which encourages kids to turn off the television and play outside.

New Orleans Saints

Through the New Orleans Saints/First Bank & Trust's "Character Now" program, Lance Moore and Lynell Hamilton will speak to high school girls about developing and maintaining a good character and about the importance a good education.

New York Giants

Corey Webster will be joined by NFL Network's Rich Eisen, Verizon representatives, and members of the New York City Department of Education to unveil a new fitness room at a local school as part of NFL Network's Keep Gym in School, a program of NFL PLAY 60.

New York Jets

Jerricho Cotchery and Robert Turner will join Jets Executive Vice President Matt Higgins, the New York City Schools Deputy Chancellor, and the PENCIL program to announce the creation of a new football team, partially funded by the Jets, at Cardozo High School in Queens. The team will also announce a college scholarship for a Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL) athlete and a $100,000 donation through the NFL Youth Football Fund to the Heads Up! helmet and C.H.A.M.P.S. middle school flag football programs.

Oakland Raiders

The Raiders will join Nickelodeon in celebrating its fifth annual Worldwide Day of Play, a day focused entirely on active play. Players including Nnamdi Asomugha will spend time with children at a local school, getting active with them as part of NFL PLAY 60. Raiders players also will spend time with participants in the Easter Seals Kaleidoscope program, speaking with them about staying active and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Easter Seals Kaleidoscope is an after school program for developmentally disabled individuals.

Philadelphia Eagles

Players will spend time with patients at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. During the visit, the Eagles players and local kids will play an interactive game with Kansas City Chiefs players and patients at a Kansas City children's hospital

San Diego Chargers

Chargers rookies will lead a Gatorade Junior Training Camp, running drills for local students and speaking with them about the importance of making the good decisions and eating right (9/21). Players will attend the unveiling of a new football field at a local high school. The new field is partially funded through a grant from the NFL Grassroots program, given on behalf of the Chargers.

San Francisco 49ers

The 49ers will team with the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford for a board game tournament followed by a family barbeque. Players will spend time with children in treatment and their siblings to form teams to compete in a friendly round robin tournament.

Seattle Seahawks

Marcus Trufant will host fans at a local restaurant for a Monday Night Football event as part of a fundraiser for the Trufant Family Foundation and Gilda's Club (9/21).

St. Louis Rams

Will Witherspoon and Josh Brown will join with other Rams players, coaches, staff and team doctors to teach female fans the X's and O's of football at the team's Football University instructional workshop, presented by Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University Orthopedics.

Tennessee Titans

Nick Harper will visit a Nashville area school while Keith Bulluck, Stephen Tulloch, Ken Amato, Stanford Keglar, Mike Rivera will visit with patients at a local hospital.

Washington Redskins

London Fletcher will bring local students for a tour of Capitol Hill will a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, as part of his London's Bridge Foundation After the tour, students will spend time with Fletcher and collegiate mentors. Renaldo Wynn and Antwaan Randle-El Washington will unveil a Redskins Youth Fitness Zone at a local Boys and Girls Club, the second donated this year.