The owner Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys, a power broker in the league who embraced and pushed the move, had an extra incentive. He owns half of Legends, a marketing and hospitality company. Last year, he persuaded the owners to let the Rams move to Los Angeles, and his company won the contract for the new stadium the Rams are building there. Jones pulled off the same daily double with the Raiders.

After a decade and a half of stability, the N.F.L. has approved three relocations in just 15 months. So many teams have relatively new stadiums that there are unlikely to be any major moves domestically for a while.

The owners, though, are interested in markets overseas, particularly London, where teams have played regular-season games since 2007. The Jacksonville Jaguars, who play in a small television market, have adopted London as their second home, and in theory, they would be first in line to move there if the owners decided to expand the league’s geographic footprint. Not coincidentally, the Jaguars, like the Raiders, are nearly last in revenue produced from their home games.

None of this matters to the aggrieved fans in Oakland. The more curious reaction came in Las Vegas.

There, lawmakers made the obligatory statements of congratulations, and Raiders fans rejoiced on the Strip. But Bill Foley, who paid $500 million for a new N.H.L. franchise that will be the first major pro team in Las Vegas when it begins play this year in a privately built hockey arena, rained on the Raiders’ parade when he questioned the wisdom of spending so much money to lure a football team.

“I felt like there were a lot of better ways to spend $750 million than bringing the Raiders to Las Vegas,” he told Vegas Hockey Hotline, a radio show. “We could spend it on police, firefighters and teachers and have them all be the best in the country. But I guess we’re going to spend it on the Raiders.”

Then there was Raiders quarterback Derek Carr, a California native.

“I don’t know how we should feel,” he wrote in a statement posted on Twitter. “I feel the pain of our fans in Oakland. I also see the joy on the faces of our new fans in Las Vegas.”