The players acted as coaches, picking the offensive or defensive plays from a series of nested menus.

It cited the documentation, detailed and accurate playbook, and team statistics as strengths, while lack of player names or statistics was a weakness, and concluded "Visicalc is the program that sold Apple computers, NFLC may be the one that sells IBM PC's to sports gamers".

Steve Sabol, NFL Films president, disagreed with the simulation result, feeling that San Francisco had a better team.

XOR made available the Dream Season disk after the show's run, with the actual teams used by ESPN's program.

The company went out of business in the early 1990s, after advertising NFL Challenge Premium Edition, which never made it to market.