For Football GM

NFL History

1966TODAY

Every season, every uniform. Real players, real ratings, real schedules, and every logo and jersey, switching on the real date.

A passion project by JenZiMiBruh

Explore your team's history → How to play →
28,700+real players
61seasons
146logo & jersey eras
121real events
The community
🏈 Just launched. Be one of the first fans.
⭐ Star it on GitHub📊 Report a wrong rating🎨 Report a wrong logo
Why this exists

I've played Football GM since 2020. Basketball GM is what got me into NBA history and stats. It has real players, real ratings, portraits, logos and jersey history going back decades. You can start in 1985 and see if you'd have drafted Jordan.

Football GM didn't have any of that, so I built it.

Every NFL season since 1966, rebuilt from real data. Start in any year. See if the Patriots can really go 19-0. See what happens if Barry Sanders doesn't retire.

— JenZiMiBruh

Stock FBGMNFL History
Real players & stats since 1966✕✓
Ratings built from real careers✕✓
Logos & jerseys by era✕✓
Real schedules, game for game✕✓
Real drafts✕✓
Retirements, comebacks, suspensions✕✓
Era-accurate game sim✕✓
Pick any season to start✕✓
Your team, 1966 to today

Pick a team

Every logo and jersey they wore, every season's record, and every notable player with the rating they have in the league, season by season. All of it straight from the league file.

Sim past today

The real next three drafts

1,020 real college players, ranked from their production, recruiting pedigree and where their position really goes. The top of 2027 follows ESPN's big board. Draft them in your league.

Build a league, right here

Start in any season

Pick a season from 1967 to today and a start point: preseason, any week of the regular season, the playoffs, after the playoffs or draft day. Then download your league and upload it in Football GM (New League → Upload league file). Works on phones too: tick Phone-friendly (on by default on phones) for a smaller league.

1Tap Load NFL history
2Pick a season and start point
3Generate & download, then upload in Football GM

Prefer a bigger window? Open the season selector full screen.

The mod · settings for everything

History that behaves like history

The league file works in stock Football GM. The mod keeps it real after day one, and every piece is a setting you can turn off.

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RPD

Real Player Determinism. Careers follow the real one: Jerry Rice plays into his 40s, Barry Sanders walks away. One slider from random to exactly real.

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Real schedules

Every season since 1966 plays its real schedule: same opponents, same weeks, same byes. Pre-merger AFL and NFL slates and strike seasons included.

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Real drafts

Elway, Manning, Stafford. The real players go to the teams that really took them.

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121 real events

Retirements, comebacks to the real team, suspensions for the real number of games, each with the real reason.

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Rosters & moves

Historical rosters every preseason, mid-season trades on the real week, real jersey numbers, numbers retired when they really were.

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Era calibration

Seven sim factors retuned every season, measured against a full 60-season sim. 1972 plays like 1972.

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Your team's colors

The whole interface takes your team's colors, and changes when theirs do.

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Pick any season

Choose the year, the phase and which events you want, right in New League.

Play it

Pick your path

⚡ QUICK START

This season

  1. Download this season's league file (don't unzip it)
  2. Football GM → New League → Upload league file

Works on phone and computer, no install.

Download this season

Older or low-memory phone? Phone-friendly version (13 MB)

📅 ANY SEASON

Pick a year

  1. Use Build a league on this page
  2. Pick a season and a start point, then generate
  3. Upload your league to Football GM

Right in your browser. Want it offline? Download the selector.

Build a league
🏈 FULL EXPERIENCE

With the mod

  1. Download the release zip
  2. Double-click Install_and_Play
  3. Play on your computer, or your phone over Wi-Fi

The first run sets up in about 5–10 minutes.

Download the mod

Install guide

v1.5 · Nov 2, 2026

What's new

Fixes from your reports on r/Football_GM, thank you. If something here fixed a problem you hit, download again and start a new league. Full changelog →

🔄The mod updates itselfIt checks for a new version every time you start it, installs it and shows what's new. No more re-downloading.
📝Report it in one tapEvery player card and team page has a link that opens a pre-filled report for a wrong rating or logo.
🎓Draft classes restoredv1.2-1.3 flattened all three real draft classes to 40/59 by mistake. The real prospects are back, and every release now checks for it.
🛠️Mod installer fixedNewer Node.js versions broke the install. It now uses its own Node 24, resumes if a run fails, and saves a log for bug reports.
💨Pass rushers rush like themselvesPass rush comes from each player's own sacks, in every era: Donald 2018 and Garrett 2025 at the top, Crosby 76.
🧱Nose tackles stop the runRun defense comes with size too: Vita Vea 67 (was 40), Dexter Lawrence 68, Haloti Ngata 78.
⭐Ratings fixedStars stuck near 49 (Olave, Chase, Taylor) are back in the high 70s. Starts now come from real snap counts.
🏃Quarterbacks run like themselvesQB speed comes from real running: Lamar 77, Daniels 72, Hurts 67; Stafford and Goff in the low 30s.
🏈Real starters startEvery team's real starting QB starts, and nobody is rated at a position he didn't play.
📱Works on phonesBuilding a past season no longer crashes phones: 16 MB instead of 88, with a phone-friendly option.
📅Start at any weekAny season since 1966, any week: standings, results and stats already played from the real games.
🆚Head-to-head and box scoresReal head-to-head records for every season, and this season's box scores by quarter.
Timeline

Updated all year, like Madden

Future dates are targets, not promises. Got a request? Open an issue.

  1. Nov 1, 2026 · donev1.0 released1966 to today, the season selector, the mod and the real 2027–2029 drafts.
  2. Nov 2 · doneFirst updateReal rosters stay real: no AI-to-AI trades, no stray signings. New site look.
  3. Week 8 · this weekMon, Nov 2Tue, Nov 3File updated the day after each game day: Sunday, Monday games.

Coming to the mod

The features at the top of the list.

🏆Named Super Bowls, foreverEvery title game gets its real name: Super Bowl I in January 1967 through LX, then the numbering keeps going in your league (LXI, LXII … C) with Roman numerals, a host city and a date. The 1966–69 AFL and NFL Championship Games keep their real names too.
📅A real NFL calendarGames land on real days and dates, not just "Week 9": Thursday, Sunday and Monday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Saturdays late in the season and the playoffs on their real weekends.
🌙Named game slotsMonday Night Football (from 1970), Sunday Night Football, Thursday Night Football, Thanksgiving in Detroit and Dallas, the Christmas games, Saturday doubleheaders. Each era only has the slots it really had.
🕐Kickoff timesEarly (1:00 ET), late afternoon (4:05/4:25), primetime (8:15) and London morning games, so you can see whether a game is midday, under the lights or at breakfast.
⭐Game of the WeekThe biggest matchup each week gets flagged and flexed into primetime, like the NFL does with Sunday night flex scheduling.