It is published by Sega and developed by Visual Concepts.

Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive lineman Warren Sapp is featured on the cover.

ESPN NFL Football is now playable online again on the replacement Xbox Live servers called Insignia.

[4][5] The game received "universal acclaim" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

[22][23] GameSpot named it the best Xbox game of September 2003.