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You may have seen the DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket commercials featuring Peyton Manning as an intense fantasy football commissioner, but did you know the kid giving him “guff,” is from central Indiana?
Lex Lumpkin gets paid to give Peyton Manning the blues. (Photo provided)
Hamilton Southeastern Junior High School sixth grader Lex Lumpkin has wanted to be in a commercial since he was a little kid, and now he’s in several with one of his favorite football players.
An entertainer from an early age, Lex had recently played the role of Stuart Little when an agent called his mom about the Peyton Manning DirecTV commercials.
“I was like, oh my gosh, I had a very big reaction. I was like, oh my gosh, cause football’s my favorite sport and being able to meet one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, it was really exciting,” Lex said.
The youngest in the commercials, his role has been to give Peyton a bit of a hard time.
“My favorite line was like, ‘Ya, I’ll give him something to cry about,’” Lex said.
A line Lex says he’s practiced “a lot” to work with one of the best football players turned actor.
“How did you get so good? Like where did you practice all of this? You were like throwing footballs, when did you get so good at acting?” he said he’d ask Peyton about his skills.