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Ex-NFL Player Dinkins to Join Branchburg NFL Camp

Branchburg Sports Complex hosting three-day NFL PLAY 60 Camp.

The Branchburg Sports Complex will host the NFL PLAY 60 Camp next week, along with former NFL tight end for the XLIV Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints Darnell Dinkins on Sept. 4.

The NFL’s “PLAY 60 Movement” encourages kids to be active for 60 minutes per day, in order to help reverse the trend of childhood obesity. It addition to the daily activities campers will learn about the historic, first outdoor, cold weather Super Bowl at Met Life Stadium hosted in our home state of New Jersey. 

Camp is being offered from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 3, 4 and 5 and kids can register for one day or the full camp. The camp is co-ed for children ages 6 to 12 years, lunch included and each camper will receive an NFL PLAY 60 Camp T-shirt. 

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Coach Dinkins was one of the top 100 players in the country coming out of high school. Upon graduation at Pitt, he went on to play nine years in the NFL with the Giants, Ravens, Browns, and the New Orleans Saints where he won a Super Bowl ring in 2009. 

Most recently, Coach Dinkins most recently served as the tight end coach and top recruiter for Rutgers University. Prior to coaching at Rutgers he was the tight end coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 

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To register for camp, visit the BSC website or call 908-203-1600. 


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