On March 27, 2017, the NFL ended years of speculation and announced that the Oakland Raiders would relocate to Las Vegas. The announcement left the raiders in limbo with one foot in Oakland and the other in Nevada for the 2017 and 2018 seasons. The new stadium in Las Vegas isn’t slated to open until 2020 or 2021 at the latest.
While the 2018 season looks to go as smoothly as the 2017 season did, there is now some doubt as to how the Raiders year-to-year lease of the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum is going to pan out in 2019 and 2020, if necessary.