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The Oakland Raiders are staying put and getting a new $110m stadium. Really I have no interest in the NFL. The college game is much more vibrant.
The difference is that the NFL make no bones about it. It's a 32 team "franchise". The clubs don't belong to the cities, the franchise is bought, normally with promises of new stadiums from the public purse or as in the case of the Rams the lure of getting back into the second biggest (13m people) TV market in America.The NFL is what the Premiership would be now if they could get away with it. Close the trap door, get rid of the smaller teams (Bournemouth, Norwich, etc) promote Leeds and Derby and then the owners can use that against their host councils/areas to get better stadiums, etc or entice other areas to poach them.As for the actual move, I'd be surprised if that was the end of it. Oakland have been left out in the cold, are stuck in a run-down stadium shared with the baseball team and their lease has just expired. If I was their owner I'd be on the phone to the Chargers, asking them to use their one year option now and sod off to LA, so that Oakland can move to San Diego where the authorities have already started the process for a $1.1billion stadium.