THE BIG STORY

Darren McFadden and Felix Jones are arguably the nation’s top running back tandem, so it’s only fitting that they dressed up for Halloween as two cartoon characters known for being pals.

McFadden arrived Wednesday afternoon at the University of Arkansas student union looking like Fred Flintstone in a black wig, blue tie and leopard-print outfit. As usual, Jones played McFadden’s sidekick. In this case, he dressed up as Barney Rubble and walked around campus in a yellow wig and brown ensemble looking like Fred Flintstone’s prehistoric friend.

“I like (the) Mario Brothers myself, but The Flintstones worked,” Jones told the Northwest Arkansas Times, smiling as he posed for pictures with McFadden. Fans voted online to determine what the two running backs should go as for Halloween.

More than 4,000 votes were submitted, and some of the other options included McFadden and Jones dressing up as the Blues Brothers or Sonny and Cher.

“I think they were trying to get me to be Cher,” McFadden said. “They said I had legs like her.” McFadden, Arkansas’ all-time leading rusher and a Heisman Trophy candidate, posed for pictures with students and strutted around like a more muscular Fred Flintstone with tattoos and even yelled “Yabba Dabba Doo!”

The Halloween costumes McFadden and Jones wore Wednesday will be auctioned off on Hogwired.com, Arkansas’ official athletic Web site. The proceeds will go to Boys & Girls Clubs in McFadden’s hometown of Little Rock and Jones’ hometown of Tulsa.

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