Tyler Hynes and Hunter King know all too well that many eyes will be on their Hallmark rom-com made alongside the Kansas City Chiefs. “I was just so excited,” King, 30, exclusively told Us Weekly on the red carpet at the 2024 ESPY Awards at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre on Thursday, July 11. “Watching this collaboration unfold and seeing everyone else’s excitement made my excitement even more heightened than it already was.
” King and Hynes, 38, will costar in the network’s Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story , which will premiere during the network’s “Countdown to Christmas” later this year. King plays Alana Higman, whose Chiefs-obsessed family hopes to win a “Fan of the Year” contest. Hynes portrays Derrick, the team’s director of fan engagement.
Per a logline, he starts spending time with Alana as he is “tasked with evaluating how Alana and her family stack up against the other two finalists.” The synopsis adds, “As the pair spends time together, it’s clear there’s a spark between them, but when her grandfather’s ( Ed Begley Jr. ) vintage Chiefs good luck winter hat goes missing, Alana begins to doubt everything she believed about fate, destiny and even questions her future with Derrick — unless, that is, a little Christmas magic can throw a Hail Mary.
” Holiday Touchdown, which is currently filming around Kansas City and inside the Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium, will be Hallmark’s first partnership with an NFL team. It’s a fitting.
