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.

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The new four-part docuseries 'It's in the Game: Madden NFL' follows the journey in popularity of the 'Madden NFL' video game franchise. Ryan Kobayashi, who flew to Los Angeles looking for his daughter, Hannah, after she was reported missing, 'tragically took his own life,' according to his family.

Here are five things some may or may not have known about the Madden video game series that are featured in the new Prime Video docuseries.