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, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, November 18, of her vote if the franchise continues.
Roden — who played doctor Morgan Quinn in 2025’s Buffalo Bills-centered holiday movie — said she would geek out if former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman or cornerback Deion Sanders were in a Hallmark film.
The actress explained that former Bills quarterback Jim Kelly making a cameo in the 2025 film was a pinch-me moment for a friend of hers, whom she brought along to set.
Holland Roden, Matthew Daddario. Brian Roedel/Hallmark Media
“If that 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.
Roden’s costar and movie love interest Daddario, 38, told Us he couldn’t pick his hometown teams because of their current seasons.
“The Giants aren’t ready yet. The Jets don’t deserve it,” Daddario confessed, referring to the two teams that represent New York, where he grew up.
Based on their current trajectory and the fact that he went to college at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, the actor voted for the Indianapolis Colts.
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“I think Indianapolis deserves to be there. That team’s got some gumption,” Daddario said. “Give me an Indianapolis Christmas [movie]. I’m about it.”
Despite being fans of their respective hometown teams, Daddario and Roden told Us they’ll always have a soft spot for the Bills after starring in A Bills Love Story. (The first Holiday Touchdown movie, A Chiefs Love Story, premiered in 2024 and focused on the fandom of the Kansas City Chiefs.)
Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story, which premieres Saturday, November 22, focuses on neighbors and family friends Morgan Quinn (Roden) and Gabe DeLuca (Daddario) as they team up to uncover who has been sending Morgan’s Uncle Tommy (Joe Pantoliano) a Bills christmas gift every year after helping him 60 years prior.
Gabe, who is the Bills’ VP of stadium development, uses his connections to “to pull off the surprise of a lifetime for Morgan and both their families that will make this a Christmas they’ll never forget,” according to the logline.
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While filming the Hallmark movie in Buffalo, New York, Daddario and Roden experienced a full-fledged tailgating experience at Highmark Stadium — and they will never forget it.
“They say that these houses are in the shadow of the Highmark Stadium, and they really are,” Roden told Us, noting the tailgates are “famous” and lived up to the hype.
Roden recalled, “We got to go to a real game where we drank out of a bowling ball. We helped clean up the ears of the man that puts mustard and ketchup all over him. So I was Q-tip Girl [for him].”
Matthew Daddario, Holland Roden. David Scott Holloway/Hallmark Media
The Teen Wolf alum revealed that she saw pizzas being cooked in a filing cabinet and a car with wings.
“[It was] bizarrely good food made in filing cabinets that they took out of some building in the 1970s,” Daddario chimed in to add. “I got to be honest, it’s not the kind of quality you’d expect, but these people know what they’re doing.”
Now, both Roden and Daddario are rooting for the Bills — as well as their other favorite NFL teams.
“I like any team that has an enthusiastic fan base that aren’t entirely exclusionary or entirely awful. And there are some teams out there like that,” Daddario explained. “The Bills [are] not like that. So, this was very easy for me. Plus, they’re from New York. I’m from New York. It counts. It’s within the region.”
He added with a laugh, “It was very easy for me to get behind the Bills. And this year, yes, I’m all in on the Bills.”
Roden confessed she’s “not a football fan” per se, but told Us, “I am 100 percent a Bills fan. It’s hard not to fall in love with the city of good neighbors.”
She gushed over Buffalo, calling it “the city of no traffic” and one that has cortado coffees “galore,” which made her love the city even more.
“You go into any coffee shop restaurant [and] there’s a spirit of the Bills. Either by physical murals on the wall, flags in the front yard. It’s like the Bills’ election 24/7 there,” Roden said. “I’m from Dallas. [As] a Cowboy fan, it’s hard to top [the Texas team], and Buffalo did it tenfold.”
Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story premieres on Hallmark Channel Saturday, November 22, at 8 p.m. ET, streaming next day on Hallmark+.
