Netflix struggled to get NFL players to eat Christmas football cake

After a day of Christmas football, Netflix brought dessert.

The only problem is that almost no one wanted to eat it.

As part of its Player of the Game awards to players like Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce of the Chiefs and Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson of the Ravens, the Netflix broadcast awarded them custom Santa-inspired side coats and football-shaped cakes.

Of the four NFL stars, only Kelce attended the postgame snack after the Chiefs’ 29-10 victory over the Steelers in Pittsburgh that clinched the AFC title for Kansas City.

“Tastes very red velvet, it’s just right,” he said on the Netflix broadcast after an eight-catch, 84-yard performance that included a touchdown. “That’s good. I’ll take this to the locker room and get a victory cake.”

Mahomes waived it – but offered a lot for the person in charge.

“I watch my weight for the playoffs, I watch my weight,” he said with a smile. “Coach (Andy) Reid is ready for it, I’ll take it to him.”

Jackson and Henry treated the cake almost like a hot potato, trying to get the other to take a bite.

“Red velvet?” Jackson asked Netflix reporter Jamie Erdahl, who revealed at the start of the show that she had tried the cake the day before when it was frozen, but not after it had sat for a few hours in the Houston heat had.

“Does that mean you want to take a bite?” she asked.

“No,” the quarterback replied.

After forcing Erdahl to take a bite, Jackson offered several contradictory excuses while Henry egged him on.

“I’m full!” he said. “I need to eat right and THEN dessert.”

Whatever the Ravens stars ended up eating, they earned it after their 31-2 win over the Texans in Houston.

Jackson completed 10 of his 15 pass attempts for 168 yards and two touchdowns, adding another 87 yards and a score on the ground – further cementing his MVP status while setting the NFL’s career rushing record for quarterbacks – before missing most of it In the fourth quarter, he stood on the sideline and watched substitute Josh Johnson take the reins.

As for Henry, the running back recorded 147 rushing yards with one touchdown, plus two receptions for 18 yards.