Move over Travis Kelce & Taylor Swift...a new Chiefs love story is headed to TV screens. The Kansas City Chiefs are teaming up with Hallmark channel for a special holiday movie. The film titled 'Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story' will star Tyler Hynes, Hunter King and Ed Begley Jr. It's set to begin filming next month in Kansas City, Missouri, the hometown of both the Super Bowl champion Chiefs and Hallmark.
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00:00Move over Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, a new Chiefs love story is headed to TV screens.
00:05The Kansas City Chiefs are teaming up with Hallmark Channel for a special holiday movie.
00:09The film, titled Holiday Touchdown, A Chiefs Love Story, will star Tyler Hines,
00:14Hunter King and Ed Begley Jr. It's set to begin filming next month in Kansas City, Missouri,
00:19the hometown of both the Super Bowl champion Chiefs and Hallmark. The production will use
00:23the city's Arrowhead Stadium as one of its filming locations, marking the first time
00:27an NFL venue has been featured in a Hallmark movie. The film sees King play Alana Higman,
00:32who is sure that her family's lifelong history as Chiefs superfans makes them a frontrunner to win
00:37the team's fan of the year contest. Hines will play Derek, the team's director of fan engagement,
00:42who is tasked with evaluating how Alana and her family stack up against the other two finalists.
00:47According to the film's description, as the pair spends time together,
00:50it's clear there's a spark between them. But when her grandfather, played by Begley Jr.,
00:54loses his vintage Chiefs good luck winter hat, Alana begins to doubt everything she
00:58believed about fate and destiny. She even questions her future with Derek,
01:02unless, that is, a little Christmas magic can throw a Hail Mary. Skydance Sports,
01:06a joint venture between Skydance Media and the NFL, is executive producing Holiday Touchdown.
01:11The movie will air as part of Hallmark's annual countdown to Christmas programming
01:14later in the year. For more on this story and all the latest news,
01:18go to THR.com. This is The Hollywood Reporter News.