Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story

This felt like home. Well, except being outside in 9° really hurts your face.

And how fun to see Thurman Thomas, Andre Reed and Scott Norwood!

Building the new stadium, beef on weck, Chestnut Ridge Park, Vidlers... They even decorated the was we really decorate in Buffalo. This movie was silly, but a lot of fun. Go Bills!

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.

It's a football movie, it's a romance, a love story to the city of Buffaloo and a Christmas movie!!!! And it got it all right! Hallmark covered all the yards. They even threw in a little mystery and a history lesson. Sure there's the predictable romance but it's a part of a whole. The cameos were numerous and well placed. Not just 4 Buffalo fans, anyone that loves a good story will enjoy this movie.

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!

Hallmark seems intent on putting some of their more popular stars as cameos in various movies.

But more than that this was a Bills pep rally. I doubt the Bills' publicist could have put in more Bills hype. Not to mention numerous Bills players, former players and head coach.

The story doesn't matter. There is plenty of banter and the tone is very upbeat. There is a running gag of "you should tell her" coming from people Gabe hardly knows. Basically the movie is just fun.

Unlike a lot of this type of movie based on Sports themes, the story isn't about a build up to a championship and since the last game shown is Christmas, they don't really talk about where the Bills place.

Gabe and Morgan have known each other since childhood and are best friends. Their actors mesh together perfectly like they have been together that long.

There isn't a lot of tension in the story especially since the viewer knows how things will work out for the couple and the pregnant mom.

There are a lot of sappy moments. I thought the sap was closer to being cheesy, especially the climax.