I could see Cohen buying the team, paying off in cash the deal with the NY stadium...leaving them with a structure that has no other practical use, and taking the team to another location (doesn’t even have to be New Jersey).
At the rate of growth going on....wouldn’t shock me if Nashville starts getting discussed. If you draw a 30-mile circle around the city...it’s probably over 2-million residents now, and still expanding.
I remember back in 1976 Toronto came within a hairsbreadth of getting the San Fran Giants. The deal was signed and ready to go and the new mayor Moscone got a court to halt the deal until another buyer could be found. Bob Lurie eventually bought the team. So a mayor stopping a sale has happened before. The next year an expansion team landed in Toronto instead.