Football Cops: The DirecTV Hoax Everyone Wishes Was Real

This week everyone’s been talking about Football Cops—the latest hoax from DirecTV.  A trailer for new cop drama starring footballers Payton and Eli Manning hit YouTube earlier this week and has already racked up a whopping quarter of a million views.  The series puts a new spin on law enforcement, introducing a new kind of cop that fights with footballs instead of guns—Football Cops—and everyone is wishing that this show was the real deal.  After all, the trailer is pretty freakin’ cool, right?

The Football Cops trailer made its way onto the DirecTV YouTube channel on Tuesday with the description, “A sneak peek at Football Cops, the new cop drama starring Peyton and Eli Manning premiering this fall, only on DIRECTV.”