John Oliver takes on overly expensive stadiums and you may never be able to watch sports the same way again.

Courtesy of The Verge:  

This week, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver tapped into the angst of the many American cities on the verge of losing their professional sports teams over stadium negotiations. Owners of football teams currently in St. Louis, San Diego, and Oakland are angling to make a move to Los Angeles, and they're leveraging the potential departure locally for taxpayer support of new or improved stadiums in their current municipalities. As Oliver makes clear, this strategy often leads to the comically vile scenario in which billionaires demand that cities provide hundreds of millions of dollars to appease privately owned teams that charge many of those same taxpayers hundreds of dollars for tickets.

Okay I have to admit that I did not know any of this.

Of course I live in Alaska and we really don't have any sports stadiums, or local teams worth buying a ticket to see. (And please don't bother mentioning the Alaska Aces or the Anchorage Glacier Pilots, because that would just be embarrassing yourself.)

And now that I have seen this report from John Oliver, I think not having a sports team worthy of building a stadium to see is probably a good thing for Alaska.