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Student Loans Helped Pay For the Name on SoFi Stadium.
Capitalism, baby.
Maybe it’s just because I associate it with my favorite season (fall), but I’ve grown to love football.
Some of my best childhood memories involved running outside in the back yard with my little brother, raking up a big pile of our neighbors leaves from their trees over the fence on a chilly October Sunday, and swinging into the piles off of the swing set. After hours of playing we’d come inside, and my grandparents would be there, pizza on the way, and of course football on the TV. Like millions of other people I was so looking forward to the Super bowl, and while I was excited for Matthew Stafford and Cooper Kupp in particular for their win, I was rooting for the Bengals and the city of Cincinnati.
But then, of course, we can always count on finding some reminders, subtle or otherwise of just how fundamentally broken our country is, and with football it’s no different.
SoFi Stadium…
SoFi is a finance company that has built profits off of student loan debt.
That $625,000,000 they dropped to get their name on that multi-billion dollar stadium? That money came out of the pockets of students.
Perhaps no one summed it up better than Warren Gunnels on Twitter, who wrote:
