With regards to the latter, it's easy for kids to jump in and start a season as all they need to do is pick their team from an allocated lot and then play week after week. What is likeable about Backyard Football 2006 is its overall presentation, both with its general look and feel and the way it presents a somewhat simplistic season mode. This obviously results in a touchdown almost every time as it can be really hard to catch up to players who've broken loose. On the opposite end of the spectrum, if you happen to pick the wrong defense your team won't pick up loose receivers and will let them take off down the field unprotected.
We're not putting this past them, but it was much easier to complete passes (or at least not get them intercepted) in the original Tecmo Bowl. This means that kids will need to have a great grasp of how routes work to properly nail down a passing game. If you try and thread the needle, the defense will intercept the ball time and time again. For example, due to the fact that you can't lead your receivers, practically the only receivers you can pass to safely are those who hit their point and are in their correct position away from the defense. The rub though is that the on-field players do a very poor job of taking care of themselves, so while kids might be able to handle their players a bit easier due to their slightly slower pace, they're actually behind because while the control scheme is nearly identical to something like Madden, the players are so bad that they'll drop passes left and right, pass right into interceptions all day and generally mess up the game so much that it becomes counter-productive to children as they're working against the inabilities of their childhood players rather than having them help out with the most basic tasks, like catching a football. There's still an abundance of basic moves, like spins, jukes, multi-receiver passing and such that, while certainly not over the heads of many kids, is essentially like what you'll find in Madden. But a few other aspects of the game won't be much easier for small kids to learn, like the control scheme. The game does a pretty decent job of stripping down the big-kids version of football into something that young kids can digest a little easier, like its slower pacing, simpler stats and the like.