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 difference between NFL Network and Sunday Ticket. There seems to be some confusion on the difference between the NFL Network and the NFL Sunday Ticket. NFL Network airs seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It has nearly 2,000 hours a year of original programming including programs such as NFL Total Access, NFL GameDay, Top 10, Playbook, NFL Replay and NFL Classic Games.