I was watching this youtube channel Slopes Game Room, they have features called The Complete History for different series of games, one of which being Shenmue.
They've mentioned in the video something I've heard for the first time ever: Ryo Hazuki has a cameo appearance in ESPN NFL Football on the original Xbox.
Did anyone know about this? Given such a cameo is incredibly obscure for an NFL game, and admittedly the narrator stated they have no found footage of this from the game, I'm still extremely curious/interested to see more.
Check the video out at this timestamp: https://youtu.be/cCdgmSlZ4DQ?t=14m51s
Full video here: https://youtu.be/cCdgmSlZ4DQ