One American who grieved for the fallen president was the poet Walt Whitman. Whitman had lived in Washington for most of the war and was a great admirer of Lincoln, whom he felt embodied the American virtues of plain-spokenness, courage, and horse-sense..
DirecTV and the NFL have reached an agreement on Sunday Ticket, giving DirecTV the exclusive right to show every NFL game each week. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. According to Reuters, citing a source familiar with the agreement, DirecTV will pay the NFL an average of $1.5 billion per year for Sunday Ticket over 8 years.
The only way to get out-of-market games is to subscribe to NFL Sunday Ticket, which costs $225 per season. Unfortunately, you can only get it if you subscribe to DirecTV, and even if I could get satellite dish reception at my apartment, paying for both cable and the football package would be cost-prohibitive.ut there's one very big downside of cord-cutting: You can't watch live sports. And now that football season is upon us, I'm weighing the options to determine the most cost-effective strategy for watching football without cable. Option 1: Watch at a friend's apartment. I call this the freeloader option.