Better Things to do With 62.8 Million Dollars Than Build a High School Football Stadium

Some town in Texas just voted to allocate $62.8 million of public money to build a stadium where high school football will be played. That is one of the dumbest sentences I've ever written that is also 100 percent true. The town voted to approve $50.3 million of the current $220 million bond for construction of the stadium with another $12.5 million coming from a 2000 bond. It will seat 12,000 people with questionable judgment.

High school football is a huge deal in Texas—the state motto is Amicitia, which when translated from latin means "barbecue, live music, but mostly high school football"—so it's not surprising that they would do something so reckless as to spend nearly double the amount of money on a concussion factory as it cost to film Concussion. We just figured we'd give them suggestions for better things to do with that money.

• Spend it on literally anything else.
• Take one dollar bill out of your pocket and hold it in your hand. Put another 62,799,999 million dollar bills in a pile outside. Light the dollar in your hand on fire and throw it on the pile.