Along with its much-promoted Black Friday NFL game, Amazon is serving up a side helping of holiday sports content this week with its new docuseries about the history of the top-selling video game based on pigskin: “Madden NFL.”
And no, the timing is not a coincidence, as “Madden” publisher EA Sports is keenly aware of the association between Hall of Fame football coach and iconic commentator John Madden, for whom the franchise is named, and Turkey Day.
“Thanksgiving is synonymous with Coach Madden. He called something like 20 Thanksgiving games as an announcer and was part of a lot of different holiday traditions with that,” EA Sports
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