Backyard Football was released for Microsoft Windows and Mac via a hybrid CD-ROM on October 28, 1999.

[4] Along with the 30 "Backyard Kids", Backyard Football includes eight young versions of NFL players as playable characters, being Jerry Rice, Randall Cunningham, Brett Favre, Barry Sanders, John Elway, Dan Marino, Steve Young and Drew Bledsoe.

[5] Other features are the ability to choose NFL teams from the 1999 season,[1] and the option to create a custom player to play in a game.

If the team manages to win their division or be a conference wild card, they can qualify for the playoffs where the player's team can attempt to beat the other conference champion in the "Super Colossal Cereal Bowl", a spoof on the real life Super Bowl.

[9][10][11] This feature was also included with Backyard Baseball 2001 but was discontinued around 2002 with the acquisition of Humongous Entertainment by Infogrames and due to the mode's underuse.

[13] To promote the game, Humongous Entertainment launched a marketing program, which included a commercial starring NFL player Jerry Rice, as well as sweepstakes to Super Bowl XXXIV.

[19] These plans never came into fruition as the rights were already purchased back in 2021 by producers Ari Pinchot and Stuart Avi Savitsky.