Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story

As a former Bills season ticket holder and lifelong Canadian fan, I just had to watch this film when I read my Bills e-mail advising me that it was on tonight.

I felt they did an excellent job with the casting of veteran actors Joe Pantoliano and Tracy Pollan, and the male and female leads, Holland Roden and Matthew Daddario had great chemistry.

For Bills fans it was of course great to see some of the current and former players in cameos.

What surprised me was the quality of the story line, nothing too complex of course but better than what I expected to be a cookie cutter Holiday film plot.

I would recommend this film for both Bills fans and anyone looking to watch a good lighthearted family Christmas movie.

4 Stars out of 5. (I would have given it 5 stars except Doug Flutie was not in it...lol)

A cute movie with a very current timeline about building the new Bills stadium. My sister's house has all those Bills decorations and more -- no lie! Great to see on-location filming at Chestnut Ridge Park, East Aurora, Children's Hospital, and the old and new Highmark Stadiums.

It's a typical Hallmark storyline, but well done by all the actors. And the Bills players are having a ball. Go Bills!

**BREAKING NEWS!** After *years* of intense research, scientists have finally discovered a **second plot** for Hallmark Christmas movies.

Early reports indicate it still involves a small town, a bakery, a flannel-wearing single dad, and a career woman from the city... but apparently this time **the snow falls in a slightly different order.**

Stay tuned for updates as researchers determine whether this new plot is actually any different or just wearing a different scarf. 🎄😂

But seriously...this movie was a bit different and actually watchable!!

I don't typically watch Hallmark movies, but this one was adorable and so funny! The small town vibes were immaculate and so endearing. Personally, Vinny and Uncle Tommy were some of my favorite characters; witty, hilarious, and you feel like you know these characters in real life. Such an awesome film and may have reeled me into Hallmark movies from here on out.

If you go to my User's Page, you can find my review on the first HOLIDAY TOUCHDOWN: A CHIEFS LOVE STORY movie which I gave two stars for being a shameless 2-hour infomercial for the Kansas City Chiefs. Its only redeeming quality was a good supporting cast of veteran comedic actors whose talent was criminally wasted. As I said about that one, it had no plot to speak of and whatever semblance of a plot wasn't even up to your standard cookie cutter Hallmark Christmas Movie.

This one exceeded all that by far. It still had a lot of gratuitous cameos of retired and current NFL Buffalo Bills whom I suspect only an obsessed fan living in Buffalo for decades would recognize in totality. But the central characters aren't as annoyingly obsessed as those in the first movie, and I could identify and sympathize with them. The plots are still formulaic but not totally cookie cutter. My old 20-minute rule for Hallmark movies (you know within the first 20 minutes which two characters are going to be paired up at the end) still held true, but there were other relationships that develop. And as with just about all Hallmark movies, it's not the destination that matters, it's the journey.