The NFL season may be over, but for the town of Bedrock, things are only getting started. Here's a 1993 commercial for a series of Flintstones NFL trading cards. This line was produced by Cardz Distribution, who made many other Hanna-Barbera series during this time, and they featured the Flintstones cast as members of various NFL teams. Also worth noting is that Wilma herself, Jean Vander Pyl, narrates the commercial.
Here's a small sample of what these cards looked like. All of the main characters were represented, and they covered many of the NFL teams. It's a bit of an odd crossover, but this was the era of cartoon characters and sports mixing and mingling. At the very least, I'd say Flintstones and football make more sense than Looney Tunes and basketball. Why, who would ever think of such a ridiculous concept?
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ReplyDeleteThe animation in the commercial was taken directly from the "Teammates" song sequence in the The Man Called Flintstone feature film.
ReplyDeleteAlso, there were two football-themed episodes from the original series, "Flintstone of Prinstone", and "High School Fred", so the connection isn't all that far-fetched.