Turtle Power: Costumed fans win Yankees tickets from Oliver

Posted April 05, 2016 7:00 am

The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - Two fans wore yellow and green Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles outfits to Yankee Stadium to answer comedian John Oliver's call to dress like "riff-raff."

Joe Spillo and John Welch of suburban Yorktown Heights sat in the second row of the Legends Suites luxury seats behind home plate Tuesday after winning the tickets for 25 cents each from HBO's "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver."

Claiming the Yankees are elitist, Oliver is selling the premium seats to this week's opening three-game series for a quarter to fans who promise to dress like they don't belong there.

After the Yankees announced that fans no longer could print tickets at home, chief operating officer Lonn Trost expressed concern on radio station WFAN in February that someone buying a discounted ticket from a resale service "may be someone who has never sat in a premium location, so that's a frustration to our existing fan base."

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2015 file photo, John Oliver speaks at Comedy Central's "Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs" in New York. HBO's Oliver says his show has purchased two high-priced Legends Suite seats behind home plate for the opening three-game series at Yankee Stadium this week and will sell them for 25 cents each to poorly dressed fans. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File) The Associated Press

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