Backyard Football, the third Backyard Sports game, was developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by GT Interactive in 1999. It is the first game in the franchise to include child versions of NFL players as playable characters; these include Jerry Rice, Brett Favre, Steve Young, Drew Bledsoe, Dan Marino, Barry Sanders, John Elway, and Randall Cunningham.[3] There are three different gameplay modes available in Backyard Football. The first one is a single game. At the single game screen, the player can select the field on which they wish to play, the weather (between sunny, where the players are able to run very quickly; rainy, in which the players are slowed somewhat and the ball is difficult to throw; and snowy, where players are slowed considerably), and the level of difficulty (between easy, medium, and hard), among various other minor settings. They then pick their team's name, which can be any of the then-31 NFL teams and 10 backyard teams. When the team is chosen, a player would take turns choosing players with the CPU. There are a total of seven players on a team, two of which will be on the bench, while five get to see action. The statistics of a player in single game mode have no effect on a player's statistics in season play.