{"id":813622,"date":"2024-12-21T22:12:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T04:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/i-watched-both-taylor-swift-x-travis-kelce-christmas-movies-so-you-wouldnt-need-to\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T22:12:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T04:12:12","slug":"i-watched-both-taylor-swift-x-travis-kelce-christmas-movies-so-you-wouldnt-need-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/i-watched-both-taylor-swift-x-travis-kelce-christmas-movies-so-you-wouldnt-need-to\/","title":{"rendered":"I watched both Taylor Swift x Travis Kelce Christmas movies so you wouldn\u2019t need to"},"content":{"rendered":"

Football <\/p>\n

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This year we\u2019ve been blessed (or cursed) with two competing Christmas movies that are essentially based on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce\u2019s relationship. Lifetime\u2019s Christmas in the Spotlight<\/em> and Hallmark\u2019s Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs\u2019 Love Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I decided there was no better way to waste three hours of valuable pre-holiday time by watching these movies back-to-back and telling you if both, or either are worth your time.<\/p>\n

Christmas in the Spotlight<\/em><\/h3>\n

We open with \u201cBowyn Sykes,\u201d the Taylor Swift equivalent in this movie working on a new Christmas album, which is also about her failed relationships. Sadly she\u2019s just suffered a horrible breakup, which her manager \u201cMira Vu\u201d decides to talk to her about in this heart-wrenching exchange <\/p>\n

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Mira:<\/strong><\/em> \u201cYou don\u2019t worry that he\u2019s jingling his bells all around town?\u201d<\/em>
Bowyn:<\/strong><\/em> \u201cI don\u2019t care. He can deck his halls with any prancer, dancer, or vixen he wants.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We then meet the Travis equivalent, Drew \u201cGonzo\u201d Gonville. He\u2019s a wide receiver for a fictitious team where his brother in the star quarterback. To get a sense of how dirty they did Jason Kelce in this movie: He\u2019s a photo of them next to each other.<\/p>\n

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Gonzo is worried his numbers and lagging and that he won\u2019t have his contract renewed. For now he\u2019s forgetting all about that to attend his niece\u2019s birthday party where he gifts her tickets to the Bowyn concert to go with him.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll spare you their little meet cute and how they both get interested in each other \u2014 frankly, because I don\u2019t want to relive it. I do need to point out that Bowyn fans are referred to as \u201cArrowheads\u201d because her name is \u201cBOWyn,\u201d get it? It\u2019s very clever.<\/p>\n

Bowyn\u2019s manager is stunned to learn that her friend met Gonzo, who she refers to as \u201cthe best wide receiver in the world,\u201d who is a \u201cnine-time MVP\u201d and has the \u201clongest record for yards received,\u201d whatever that is.<\/p>\n

So hold up. Gonzo is a NINE-TIME MVP, which would make him the greatest player in the history of football and it\u2019s not even close \u2014 yet he\u2019s worried about being cut because he has bad numbers for one season? <\/p>\n

Bowyn decides to go on a date with him because it might mean she gets to be in the Super Bowl halftime show.<\/p>\n

So they start dating, and magically Gonzo is playing \u201cthe best football of his career,\u201d which is wild for someone to say, who once again, is a NINE-TIME MVP. <\/p>\n

Gonzo gets a contract offer from another team, planning to accept it. His QB brother blows up, blaming it on Bowyn. Gonzo says \u201cI\u2019m glad someone else sees my worth,\u201d which again, is wild considering HE\u2019S A NINE-TIME MVP. <\/p>\n

They resolve their conflict in 15 minutes of screen time. Bowyn performs at a cancer benefit and the movie ends with them kissing on Christmas while a little girl yells \u201cTOUCHDOWN!\u201d <\/p>\n

Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs\u2019 Love Story<\/em><\/h3>\n

This movie is barely a movie. Made by Hallmark AND the NFL in concert, it\u2019s basically a 90 minute ad for football and the Chiefs. This version evokes the Taylor and Travis relationship without being too on the nose.<\/p>\n

In this one Alana Higman and her family own the most quaint Chiefs memorabilia store in Kansas City. They are trying to become the \u201cfans of the year,\u201d which is apparently a contest and it\u2019s here that Derrick Taylor comes in. He\u2019s the Chiefs \u201cDirector of Fan Engagement,\u201d which all the old people assume means that Alana is getting engaged. It\u2019s all very \u201cfunny.\u201d<\/p>\n

They have their meet cute. Start spending more time together, and Alana gets invited to the Chiefs\u2019 Christmas Party \u2014 which she is super hyped about. There she meets actual Chiefs\u2019 guar Trey Smith, who apparently knows who Alana is because he family has a \u201clucky Chiefs hat,\u201d which means the team wins on Christmas if it\u2019s worn in the stadium.<\/p>\n

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Trent Green is in the movie too, which is mostly so I can post this screenshot without any context.<\/p>\n

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The family loses the magic Christmas hat, which Alana assumes means the family business will close and everyone will hate them. This movie is really designed around the idea that Kansas City is such a small town that everyone would know about this one memorabilia shop and actively seek to shut it down over a magic hat.<\/p>\n

The true magic wasn\u2019t the hat, it was family. The Higmans win \u201cfans of the year,\u201d Alana and Derrick kiss at midfield before the big Christmas game \u2014 and Andy Reid wants them to piss off.<\/p>\n

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Then at the last second the world\u2019s creepiest man dressed as Santa gives Alana the magic Christmas hat.<\/p>\n

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Grandpa cries and realizes it\u2019s the Chiefs hat Santa gave to him as a kid. The end.<\/p>\n

Which of these movies should I watch?<\/h3>\n

Neither. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Read More<\/a> James Dator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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