Hasta La Creative!

Step right up, folks, and feel yourself getting gleefully dumber as you watch this new DirecTV Sunday Ticket ad posing as a bad rap video. Dubbed "Football on Your Phone," it stars Eli and Peyton Manning as slack-jawed versions of themselves. At first you'll hate it, but then you won't be able to stop watching. After a couple minutes of rubbernecking, you'll see Eli burst through a large portrait of Alexander Graham Bell and realize you've been beaten about the head with stupidity to the point that you can't help but laugh. In other words, it's like a lazy ripoff of The Lonely Island. Then again, if they'd tried too hard, it probably wouldn't work at all. And it's really pretty great. Agency: Grey, New York. Full credits after the jump.

Credits

Agency: Grey Group
CCO: Tor Myhren
ECD: Dan Kelleher
VP Creative Directors: Doug Fallon, Steven Fogel
EP: Andrew Chinich
Associate Producer: Lindsay Myers

Production Co.: Hungry Man
Director: Bryan Buckley
EPs: Kevin Byrne, Dan Duffy, Mino Jajoura
Producer: Jay Shapiro

Edit Company: Cosmo Street Editorial
Editor: Tom Scherma
Producer: Heather Richardson

Music: Butter Music & Sound
EP: Ian Jeffreys
CD: Andrew Sherman

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People who unironically think of their dogs as children are probably a) not well and b) overjoyed about DirecTV's announcement that it will be carrying DogTV, a $6 per month premium channel whose programming comforts animals while their owners are at work. It sounds (and is) ridiculous, but DogTV takes its mission seriously. Not only dooes it show programs that alternately stimulate and relax dogs, but the colors and audio in its broadcasts are adjusted for canines as well. My advice is to save money and just leave the TV on the Food Network all day. Dogs sleep most of the time anyway, and any dog who lives with the kind of credulous yuppie dork who would subscribe to a dog TV channel is used to hearing Alton Brown's voice by now. Photo via.