raiders would be front page news in LA. also gruden would not be there haha, he's not an LA guy to me.
Not with an expansion level team. They struggled with interest in LA past 87 once Mark's dad ran the team into the ground and started with the NWA stuff. Only one time past 87 did they beat the league average attendance. Watch the 30 for 30 straight out of LA ESPN thing where it went wrong. LA or anywhere want a winner. Winning and Mark Davis/the last years of Al Davis don't go together. Check out the Raiders record the last 25+years. What's their record going to be the next 20 under Mark Davis?
The Davis family destroyed both the Oakland and the LA fan base with their ownership. Look at the mistakes they made.
Leaving Oakland the first time was a mistake. They had a great thing going, regular sellouts. Yes the Oakland Coliseum was outdated but so was the LA Coliseum so what was the point of the LA move?
Once in LA they won the superbowl and built a good fan base(LA turned on the Rams with the Anaheim move and felt betrayed) but Davis ran the Raiders into the ground and started with the NWA stuff. The crowds at the Coliseum changed from working class multicultural crowds to a much different crowd. Bob Iger who the Raiders and Chargers hired for their Carson stadium bid admitted the Raiders had to "reposition their brand" if they wanted to move back to LA thanks to Al and his NWA stuff. Al Davis also had dibs on the current Rams/chargers before site before the Raiders left but refused to share it with another future team that would have obviously had no LA history. If he would have agreed to share, stopped the losing and tried to price the last years of the old Coliseum crowd out he could have owned LA. Big mistake. Don't forget the impact the Marcus Allen/Al Davis fued had too.
So then the return to Oakland with Mt Davis added to the Coliseum. They didn't need Mt. Davis because they lost too many fans with the move and the 49ers winning 4 of 13 superbowls while they were gone. PSL's didn't sell, the city got left on the hook. Raiders attendance in the return is an NFL outlier. They only broke 60,000 one time in the return. To get the fans back they needed to hit the ground running, they were and are a joke instead. They also refused the only realistic option to stay in the bay area share with the 49ers.
So now they are moving out of state in a year and going to Vegas with an expansion level team. Just horrible ownership. There absolutely should have been a way for the NFL to step in a long time ago in either Oakland or LA.