NFL 2017 Offseason - Where does Romo go?

They would too, because they'd have just as much of a shot as that being successful as them still playing in Oakland in 2020. Raiders aren't breaking a lease by several years like the Browns did.

That would allow the Coliseum to void their lease... which they said they won't do even though politicians said they were going to do everything they could to push them out sooner rather than later. The Browns broke a lease that required them to play a number of games in Cleveland for a number of years.

Oakland isn't keeping the Raiders branding over $800k in parking fees. The only other potential breach is not bargaining in good faith... but the Raiders have been trying to get a new stadium for the better part of a decade and the city has made half-hearted efforts at best until Mark hitched his wagon to Vegas, and even this latest deal was rotten at it's core and never viable. Not sure how the Raiders being less receptive to ideas from the city over the last several months while working on Vegas gives that lawsuit much to go on.

Oakland really seems to have just banked on the Raiders leaving to some other nearby venue like Levi's, where they could have shared with the 49ers and still been called the Oakland Raiders. Win-win for the politicians. Vegas wasn't supposed to pan out, and then $750m of public money from a city that is in a relatively unique position to raise that kind of cash with relatively little risk and then the miracles begin to happen.

The St. Louis suit is kind of funny, the same economic professor who insists there's no benefit to cities with stadiums or pro sports teams also suffer no ill effects when they leave. St. Louis's lawsuit seems to disagree with that. Just the tax savings and relocation fee from the Chargers and Rams move will pay for the Raiders relocation fee. I don't see how the city doesn't feel a hit from their share of over $200m in payroll leaving town. Good for the Raiders players though, at least in the short term, many of them have said they'll continue their charity and outreach programs in Oakland after the move. Then again, I think the over/under on the number of players currently on the roster still with the team in 2020 is like 17.