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Samantha returns home for her town's winter festival to celebrate her father's retirement from coaching. Her hopes for a quiet visit are dashed when she encounters her high-school sweetheart, NFL quarterback Jake.

Samantha, once jilted by her high-school sweetheart Jake during Snowcoming, returns home to honor her football-coach father, who's retiring, and runs into Jake, now a famous quarterback. After seeing that the library needs updating, Samantha asks Jake to use his celebrity as a draw for a "Tailgate at the Library" fundraiser.—Happy_Evil_Dude

"Samantha, once jilted by her high school sweetheart Jake during Snowcoming, returns home to honor her football coach father, who's retiring, and runs into Jake, once her sweetheart and now a famous quarterback. Samantha works for a publisher who has just curtailed the line she was editing and sent her back to cook book editing. Jake is constantly hiding from an inquisitive press, especially with rumors swirling that he might be traded.

After seeing the library needs updating, Samantha asks Jake to use his celebrity as a draw for a 'Tailgate at the Library' fundraiser. Jake agrees to "Tailgate with Jake" and the attendant publicity induces Cassie, an aggressive reporter, to make the trip to town to stir things up and create news, if necessary. She plants a seed if doubt and distrust with Samantha who sees a possible re-play of her high school heart break when Jake stood her up for the Snow Ball Dance. It would seem, according to Cassie, that history was bound to repeat.

Samantha walks out of the library fundraiser without a word to anyone. Jake notices her absence and asks about her departure. On a hunch, he went to the tree house where they had spend romantic time in their youth. He finds her and attempts to convince her that this is not a history re-run. She is skeptical but agrees to attend the Snow Ball event where Samantha's father makes official his retirement as coach and high school teacher and Jake will draw the winner of an autographed football signed by both the coach and Jake.

The high school principal makes a surprise announcement: Jake will be the new coach and teacher, foregoing his professional football career to come home. But his agent, Lenny (played by Joe Theismann) plans to talk him out of the decision and reminds him of his obligation to come with him on the plane to a meeting that Jake had previously agreed to attend. Of course, taking the plane means Jake will stand Samantha up again, as he had done many years ago.

In a meeting with her father, the school librarian and Samantha, the cat is let out of the bag: Coach and the librarian announce their engagement and the librarian's retirement. Samantha is offered the job and, after a moment's hesitation agrees. Jake leaves, ostensibly to meet the plane with his agent. But, having second thoughts about standing Samantha up at the dance again, Jake surprises Samantha. Kisses finally ensue.