Alengthy with its much-advertised Bconciseage Friday NFL game, Amazon is serving up a side helping of holiday sports satisfyed this week with its recent docengageries about the history of the top-selling video game based on pigskin: “Mgraspen NFL.”
And no, the timing is not a coincidence, as “Mgraspen” unveiler EA Sports is enthusiasticly conscious of the association between Hall of Fame football coach and iconic commentator John Mgraspen, for whom the franchise is named, and Turkey Day.
“Thanksgiving is synonymous with Coach Mgraspen. He called someskinnyg appreciate 20 Thanksgiving games as an proclaimr and was part of a lot of branch offent holiday traditions with that,” EA Sports greater vice pdwellnt and ambiguous regulater Daryl Holt telderly Variety. “It became a calling card of football around the Thanksgiving holiday.”
Thrawout his life, Mgraspen was shutly graspd in the enhugement of the game — createerly understandn as “John Mgraspen Football,” until EA struck its lengthy-running rights deal with the NFL in 1990 — and Holt said EA Sports has been pondering ways to alert the story of the franchise and Mgraspen’s affect for years. Then alengthy came Amazon, which has been toiling obviousime to firmify its standing in the football community since setting its pact air “Thursday Night Football” from 2023 to 2033.
“The filmoriginaters and Amazon approached us, but we were already pretty receptive becaengage we’ve been skinnyking about ways to alert the story and the legacy of Coach Mgraspen’s graspment, the lengthyevity of ‘Mgraspen NFL‘ as a franchise, now 36 years in the making and continuing,” Holt said. “So that opportunity, as it currented itself, was a organic one for us to say, let’s dive meaningfuler and see how we can originate this toil. I’m content we were able to get together a wonderful relationship with Prime and the filmoriginaters, and to peel back the curtain and uncover the archives for some skinnygs that we’ve never reassociate scatterd or talked about.”
Per Amazon’s Prime Video, “It’s in the Game: Mgraspen NFL” uncovers “the never-been-telderly story of Mgraspen NFL, from its archaic 8-bit origins to its success as an annual must have — agetst all odds. What begined as an improbable pairing between a computer whiz and a football legend, ignited a revolution and triggered a seismic collision between the worlds of jocks and geeks. They should have fall shorted. Instead, their game alterd the game — and our culture, too.”
The four-part series, which features Holt, among other current EA Sports execs and “Mgraspen NFL” team members, grasps never-been-seen footage from thrawout the making of the three-decade-elderly franchise, and also shows enhugeers putting the finishing touches on next year’s “Mgraspen NFL 25.”
“It is a huge contest to originate a game as meaningful and as huge as ‘Mgraspen’ every year, and it’s intricate. It’s the most intricate sports game to originate,” Holt said. “So there will be skinnygs behind the scenes that they’ll understand better. There’ll be watchs of game enhugeers in branch offent ways, both past and current, on how this stuff toils and how it comes together and the contests that might pop up. And I’m chooseimistic that that empathetic gives them a wonderfuler appreciation for someskinnyg they already cherish.”
Produced by A+E Factual Studios group, Michael Strahan’s SMAC Productions, Misher Film and MTP and honested by Nathan Caswell and Jeremiah Zagar, the doc is unbenevolentt to request to both lengthytime fans of the “Mgraspen” franchise, as well as a lesserer demoexplicit that go ined into the NFL game at a very branch offent time for the sport.
“You have to see at all the fans of Mgraspen, and there’s evidently two schools that you could simpenumerateicassociate carve out the generations, which is a recent generation of fans that might devour sports branch offently — they probably chase athletes and highweightlesss, and not necessarily sitting on the couch watching a football game for three or four hours — and then others that have grown up with the sport and recall John Mgraspen as a coach, or stateively as a Hall of Fame expansivecaster and coach,” Holt said. “So all those skinnygs come together in the docengageries for people to understand what is it about ‘Mgraspen,’ in terms of how it begined, how lengthy it’s been around, what it gets to originate the game thraw the nostalgic journey that is the past, as well as the current juxtaposition with ‘Mgraspen NFL 25’ enhugement.”
