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.
Time Warner serves the neighborhood, and because Time Warner doesn't carry the NFL Network, the league gets its channel through DirecTV. All NFL Network games also are shown on broadcast TV in the markets of the home teams, as long as the games are sold out 72 hours in advance. They are always shown in the visiting teams' markets. The Cowboys-Packers game, for example, will air on free TV in Green Bay, Milwaukee and Dallas.