DirectTV to Offer Sunday Ticket Refunds to NFL fans with hurt feelings.
I think this should be called the "Snowflake Discount."
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/20829346/directv-offering-refunds-fans-wishing-cancel-nfl-sunday-ticket-package
Source: Fans upset by protests can get Sunday Ticket refunds
10:40 AM ET
Darren Rovell
DirecTV is offering unprecedented refunds for fans who want to cancel their NFL Sunday Ticket package, if they inform the company that they are doing so due to the recent protests during the national anthem, a source confirmed.
Once the season starts, fans usually cannot cancel their subscriptions, but AT&T, which owns DirecTV, decided to change the policy due to the sensitivity of the issue. The price of the package, which allows fans to get out-of-market games, is about $280.
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#45's biggest fans are also total NFL addicts -- ever take a glance at their Facebook pages? NFL, big-boobed women, top-hatted skull tattoos, multiple look-at-me-with-my-gun selfies, some sort of combustion-engine junker (rusting muscle car, an over-the-hill Harley, a shitbox truck with jetliner-sized tires, etc.), more NFL chatter ("those black guys make terrible quarterbacks, pass me another Blue Ribbon" *belch*), several racist memes, several anti-Hillary/Obama memes, angry eagle images, several anti-Muslim memes, some carping about the NFL draft, and more red, white & blue than a 4th of July parade (although about half of those colors come from images of the Confederate battle flag).
If these layabouts cut off their minimum tri-weekly NFL fix, they might actually get out of the double-wide more often on Sunday afternoons, Monday nights, Thursday nights, and the occasional playoff Saturday afternoon. Or, more likely, they'll just spend more time on Breitbart. Why worry about which team takes a knee when you can post endlessly about "libtards," Hillary's emails (never mind what tRump's cabinet and advisors are doing); they can also dig down into the horseshit Obama-Soros "Deep State" fantasy, or simply post about their fondling-sessions with their well-oiled firearms collections. Hell yeah!
...or customer appreciation. They're just using this as an opportunity to demonstrate monetary losses to the NFL so they can use it to renegotiate a better deal with them going forward.
These vultures don't fool me for a second... 