NEW YORK (CBSNew York) — Call them riffraff in a half shell.
The first winners of John Oliver’s contest to put out-of-place fans in premium Yankee Stadium seats were two young men from Westchester County dressed in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles costumes.
There are two guys behind home plate dressed as Ninja Turtles that have to be the John Oliver contest winners pic.twitter.com/K7XbXz8Tih
— Davril Lavignezo (@davelozo) April 5, 2016
The host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” launched the contest this week in response to comments made by Yankees COO Lonn Trost that some fans who paid full price to sit in premium locations were uncomfortable sitting next to fans who scored the ticket for a fraction of the face-value cost from an online reseller.