Comedy

Stop Buying Stadiums for Billionaires!

Sports subsidies suck.

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Allegiant Stadium and Andrew Heaton | Illustration: Adani Samat
(Illustration: Adani Samat)

If sports is a trillion dollar industry, with billionaire team owners and millionaire players, and hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic fans, and weird pervert mascot creatures, why is the government giving them your money?

Andrew Heaton is a producer at Reason. He is the author of, most recently, Tribalism Is Dumb: Where It Came From, How It Got so Bad, and What To Do About It.