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Sports Subsidies Relies On Fan Support

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Many people believe that support for sports subsidies relies on fan support. John Oliver, Dennis Coates and her companion Brad R. Humphreys present several viewpoints regarding the stadium 's arising arguments and questions. In his parody video Last Week Tonight, John Oliver attacks stadium subsidies, the process by which local and state governments give hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to fund stadiums for professional sports teams. The article “Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Subsidies for Sports Franchises, Stadiums and Mega-Events?” claims that we should not support sports subsidies because of the consensus______. Oliver speaks to a broad audience while Coates and Humphreys appeal to a specific audience, consisting primarily of economists. When considering both Oliver 's and Coates & Humphrey 's texts, it is evident that the genre of the text had the greatest impact on the choice of the organization.

Throughout Oliver’s video he makes several clever comments that keeps a broad audience not only entertained but educates them on stadium subsidies. Oliver cleverly begins his parody video by mentioning that he loves sports and that the only times he 's cried as a grown man has been while watching the actors play a coach role and delivering inspirational speeches. Oliver finishes his video by delivering an emotional and uplifting speech in which he states it 's time to fight back. He continues explaining that he has no problem with stadiums having large

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