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Originally Posted by pig4bill
They can sue to enforce the lease. That means every single payment for the term of the lease.
Depending on the value of the lease, the legal cost of enforcing it, and the secondary revenue drop from a "zombie" team (a team that has declared their intention to leave but hasn't yet), it may not make sense to sue.
For example, the Raiders mentally/emotionally checked out a long time before they left. They always wondered why their strategy of threatening to leave every other year and asking for a billion dollar bond measure every other year wasn't working. I as a taxpayer would have been happy to have let them buy out their lease whenever. Nobody was investing around that site - no businesses, no restaurants, no housing - because at any point since 2005ish there's been a 30-50% chance that the Raiders would be gone the following year.