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.
When I realized we were only watching DirecTV programming for an hour or two monthly when NFL football is not onâand STILL paying almost $100 per month for the most basic package (i.e. over $50 per hour for TV), I felt it was time to cut the cord. I hate wasting money and I hate bureaucracy.