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Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story brought Hallmark's NFL franchise to Chicago, and Eric and Andrea are back on the football field to decide whether it scored. Lyndsy Fonseca and Robert Buckley won them both over, but the heavy Bears branding kept pulling them out of the story. Before kickoff, they also give a quick verdict on Mr. & Mrs. Christmas with Brendan Penny and Pascale Hutton, and it is not a generous one.

What You'll Hear:

• Why Mr. & Mrs. Christmas landed at two stars for Andrea, and why Pascale Hutton's storyline should have been the main one

• Andrea's three star rating (up from two and a half) and the wave of oddly identical Instagram comments that followed it

• The One Tree Hill connection with Robert Buckley and Barbara Alyn Woods, plus cameos from Marilu Henner and Tamera Mowry-Housley

• Why Eric calls this the best of the three Holiday Touchdown movies, starting with a meet-cute over a book at a bar

• Grandmother math that does not add up, and an entire city still reading print newspapers

• A split decision on the Santa and a Secret Santa who cannot keep a secret

• Football romance picks beyond Hallmark: Heaven Can Wait and Jerry Maguire

• Trivia on Barbara Alyn Woods' acting daughters, Marsha Mason's herbal medicine business, the real 1971 Bears vs. Vikings game in the scrapbook, and the Holiday Touchdown curse

• Instagram poll results for 'Tis the Season for Setups and a look at next weekend's Winter Wonderlanes, Forgotten Holiday, and What If Christmas

Chapters:

0:00 - Touchdown or Fumble? The Opening Verdict

0:35 - Mr. & Mrs. Christmas: Why It Missed

3:30 - Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story Recap and Cast

4:35 - Andrea's Rating and the One Tree Hill Connection

6:15 - Those Suspiciously Identical Instagram Comments

8:10 - Eric's Take: Best of the Three Holiday Touchdowns?

11:10 - Grandma's Age and a Town Full of Newspapers

13:15 - Too Much NFL, Boundaries, and the Santa Debate

16:05 - Standouts: Jody and Ron, Plus Marilu Henner

19:00 - The Romance: Lyndsy Fonseca and Robert Buckley

20:20 - If You Liked It: Heaven Can Wait and Jerry Maguire

21:45 - Trivia: Barbara Alyn Woods and Her Acting Daughters

23:40 - Marsha Mason, a 1971 Bears Game, and the Curse

26:10 - Poll Results: 'Tis the Season for Setups

27:15 - Next Week: Winter Wonderlanes, Forgotten Holiday, What If Christmas

Andrea landed on three stars, and Eric liked it more than the Chiefs and Bills movies while wishing the NFL would take a back seat. Did the Bears branding pull you out of the story, or was it part of the fun?

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