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NFL Play 60 Encourages Kids to Turn Off Games

By pete_gallagher

While the Buffalo Bills may be 0-3, and fans might soon begin to turn off their games, a group of players from the team recently met with kids in order to encourage them to ditch videogames and TV for an hour a day in favor of physical exercise.

About a dozen Bills players were joined by the mayors of Niagara Falls and Buffalo as they entertained a group of third-through-sixth graders for a Play 60 Challenge event, which is a joint initiative between the National Football League and the American Heart Association.

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown told the kids, 'In addition to doing all of your schoolwork and having healthy minds, you have to turn off the video games and exercise 60 minutes every day, whether it's going outside and playing with your friends, riding your bicycle, throwing a football, throwing a baseball or jumping rope.'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on September 29, 2010 (boomark / email).