The manufacturer advertised that this game "sports a smaller, lighter backbox for easy disassembly and transportation." Designer Mark Ritchie was working on Kingpin before Flipper Football was even started, but Flipper Football was rushed to production ahead of Kingpin. When a whitewood was approved for release to production, a sequentially-assigned project number was assigned to the game and engineering drawings were started. The Project Number for this game was "PB-11". This number appears on the playfield under the cardholder.