Are you ready for some football…cartoons!

With various pre-game and post game shows and games on Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays depending on the point in the season, the NFL was already doing a good job at controlling the televisions of Americans.

Now, they’ve teamed up with Nickelodeon to create an NFL based cartoon.  The new animated short series, entitled Rush Zone: Guardians of the Core, is based on the NFL RushZone, the NFL’s online world for kids.  The show consists of 22 two-to-five minute episodes featuring all 32 NFL teams and various NFL player/coach cameos, including Saints coach Sean Payton and Giants QB Eli Manning.  Details, via press release.

The series will air weekly to coincide with the 2010 NFL season from September through February and will culminate with a one-hour movie special to air the day before Super Bowl XLV.  The series also will be available on Nicktoons.com and NFLRUSH.com, the NFL’s official website for kids, following its premiere on Nicktoons.  Additionally, the series is being created in high definition for use on Jumbotrons in NFL stadiums across the country.

“It is great to be partnering with the NFL,” said Keith Dawkins, Nicktoons General Manager, Senior Vice President, Nickelodeon Programming Partnerships.  ”To be able to bring the power of two brands that boys love, the NFL and Nickelodeon, together under one roof and leverage the best of what we both do is extremely exciting.  This new series combines fantasy, sports, game play, team work, competition and the age old theme of good vs. evil, under one compelling new narrative.”

“We are pleased to expand our relationship with Nickelodeon and to bring the NFL to life in a fantastical, exciting animated series,” said Peter O’Reilly, NFL Vice President of Fan Strategy & Marketing. “Millions of children have discovered the fun of the NFLRUSH ZONE online world in the past two years, and this new series is a great way of bringing the RUSH ZONE to an even wider audience every week during the NFL season.” (via PRNewswire)

Again, look for the animated short to run through the entire 2010-2011 NFL season.

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Category: Football