Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story stars Holland Roden And Matthew Daddario have strong opinions on which NFL team should get the next Hallmark movie treatment.
“I’m biased. I say Cowboys because I’m from Dallas,” Roden, 39, told the outlet exclusively. Us every week Tuesday, November 18, of his vote if the right to vote continues.
Roden — who played Dr. Morgan Quinn in the 2025 Buffalo Bills-centric holiday movie — said she would have gone crazy if the former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman or cornerback Deion Sanders were in a Hallmark movie.
The actress explained that the former Bills quarterback Jim Kelly Making an appearance in the 2025 film was a pinch-me moment for one of her friends, who she brought to the set.
Roden, Matthew Daddario.
Brian Roedel/Hallmark Media“If this happened to me [with Aikman or Sanders]it would definitely be like, “Oh, whoa. Twelve-year-old Holland is freaking out right now,” Roden said.
Daddario, 38, Roden’s partner and lover of the film, said We he couldn’t choose his hometown teams due to their current seasons.
“The Giants aren’t ready yet. The Jets don’t deserve it,” Daddario admitted, referring to the two teams that represent New York, where he grew up.
Based on their current trajectory and the fact that he attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, the actor voted for the Indianapolis Colts.
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“I think Indianapolis deserves to be there. This team has grit,” Daddario said. “Give me a Christmas in Indianapolis [movie]. I’m there.
Although they are fans of their respective hometown teams, Daddario and Roden said We they will always have a soft spot for the Bills after playing in A Bills Love Story. (The first Holiday Landing movie, A love story between chefscreated in 2024 and focused on Kansas City Chiefs fandom.)
Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Storypremiering Saturday, November 22, focuses on neighbors and family friends Morgan Quinn (Roden) and Gabe DeLuca (Daddario) as they team up to find out who sent Morgan’s Uncle Tommy (Joe Pantoliano) a Christmas present for Bills every year after helping him 60 years ago.
Gabe, who is the Bills’ vice president of stadium development, uses his connections to “pull off the surprise of a lifetime for Morgan and both of their families, making it a Christmas they’ll never forget,” according to the logline.
The NFL is partnering with Hallmark for the second consecutive holiday season — but instead of spotlighting a Kansas City Chiefs love story, the Buffalo Bills will instead get the romantic comedy treatment. Hallmark announced in March that its 2025 “Countdown to Christmas” lineup would include another football-focused movie: Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love. […]
While filming the Hallmark movie in Buffalo, New York, Daddario and Roden had a full-blown tailgating experience at Highmark Stadium — and they’ll never forget it.
“They say these houses are in the shadow of Highmark Stadium, and they really are,” Roden said. Wenoting that the tailgates are “famous” and live up to the hype.
Roden recalls, “We got to go to a real game where we drank out of a bowling ball. We helped clean out the ears of the man who was putting mustard and ketchup all over him. So I was Q-tip Girl. [for him].”
Matthew Daddario, Holland.
David Scott Holloway/Hallmark MediaTHE Teenage Wolf one alumna revealed she saw pizzas baked in a filing cabinet and a car with wings.
“[It was] “Weirdly good food made in binders that they took out of a building in the 1970s,” Daddario added. “I have to be honest, it’s not the kind of quality you’d expect, but these people know what they’re doing.”
Now, Roden and Daddario support the Bills – as well as their other favorite NFL teams.
“I like any team that has an enthusiastic fan base that isn’t entirely exclusive or totally horrible. And there are teams like that,” Daddario explained. “The invoices [are] not like that. So it was very easy for me. Plus, they’re from New York. I’m from New York. It matters. It’s in the region.
He added with a laugh: “It was very easy for me to support the Bills. And this year, yes, I’m all about the Bills.”
Roden admitted she was “not a football fan” per se, but she told him We“I’m 100% a Bills fan. It’s hard not to fall in love with the city of good neighbors.”
She raved about Buffalo, calling it a “city with no traffic” and cafes cortados “galore,” which made her love the city even more.
“You go to any coffee shop [and] there is a spirit of the bills. Either through physical murals on the walls, flags in the front yard. It’s like the Bills election 24/7 over there,” Roden said. “I’m from Dallas. [As] a Cowboy fan, it’s hard to do better [the Texas team]and Buffalo has done it ten times.
Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story premieres on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, November 22 at 8 p.m. ET, streaming the next day on Hallmark+.
