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Manning brothers have a future in law enforcement as Deutsch's 'Football Cops'

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If the NFL season gets canceled this fall, at least Peyton and Eli Manning can fall back on their acting careers. Check out the trailer below for Football Cops, a fictional show from DirecTV and ad agency Deutsch New York (along with director Bryan Buckley), in which the Mannings play police buddies and former pro football players who keep criminals in line by chucking black footballs at them—which turns out to be a good way to impale them, or at least knock over their martinis.

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