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NFL QBs Go All-Rob Lowe For DirecTV
- NYSportsJournalism.com, Tuesday, July 28, 2015 8 AM
In the world of DirecTV, it takes a team of NFL quarterbacks to replace actor Rob Lowe. A campaign for the subscription cable provider saw Lowe play opposite inferior versions of himself intended to represent DirecTV's competition, including awkward, creepy, less attractive, scrawny arms and meathead. The ads ended with the real Lowe offering, "Don't be like this me. Get rid of cable and upgrade to DirecTV."
