DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket website and app crash on opening weekend

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Football fans struggled to watch the first NFL Sunday Ticket game of the season due to issues with DirecTV's website and app. While some users (including myself) reported seeing an error page when trying to access the Sunday Ticket website, others said they couldn't even sign in.

But that's not all - users reported a range of other issues, too, with some getting locked out of the stream and receiving an error message that says they're located in an NFL stadium and can't watch the stream. It's unclear what exactly caused the issues with the Sunday Ticket stream, which started several hours leading up to the game and continued throughout the afternoon.

I am not near an NFL stadium but Directv thinks I am so the Sunday Ticket app I paid...

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