>>I think there have been video games involving football cyborgs, I
>>vaguely recall something of the sort for the old NES (or maybe that
>>was baseball, I just remember buying sportsball dudes new body parts
>>to wreck opponents with.)
>
>That rings a vague bell. Something kind of like Syndicate,
>except the meeples were some sort of future sports team instead of
>megacorp murder minions.

The Deliverator Deliverates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIn4DexsU0g

By all accounts, this was pretty much shovelware crap that Atari cranked out back in the day. I only remember it for the one and only memorable bit of the game - the splash screen where a synthesized female voice cheerfully proclaims, "Welcome to CYBERBOWL!"