Designer David Winter originally specialized in administrative and industrial applications, doing business through his private firm Wintervalley Software.

Simulation veterans were eager to recognize the game's potential, but most accepted the fact that it could not rival established names in the same subgenre.

Official CFL content was scrapped in favor of more options: the game allowed the player to pick his own ruleset and field size from various gridiron football codes.

A 2012 Kotaku article revealed that a team of Electronic Arts developers had prototyped a CFL conversion of EA Sports NCAA Football for internal purposes.

Despite talks between Canadian-born EA executive Cam Weber and then-CFL commissioner Mark Cohon, the CFL mode never made it to any actual release.