And you thought the Brandon Aiyuk contract was strange.
Fans of the San Francisco 49ers anticipating watching Monday Night Football might want to check your TV provider. If it’s DirecTV, you may want to look for an alternate that night.
DirecTV is currently in a contract battle with Disney (owner of ESPN) over having the channel on their service, and ESPN is dangling the Monday Night Football games as an incentive to get it done. Does it get done in time? Well, it’s Saturday so you better be getting Plan B.
SF Gate reports that anyone plugging in a San Francisco zip code to troubleshoot missing channels gets this message:
“We’re excited to see the start of the new college and NFL football seasons too.