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 Broncosâ single-game tickets will go on sale at 2 p.m. Thursday, July 28, including 2,000 half-price tickets per game. The half-price tickets are available because of the agreement with the Metropolitan Football Stadium District in the construction of Sports Authority Field at Mile High.