Why would a guy from Illinois move the team back to LA, other than for the LULZ?
Zygmunt buys a plucky little club with a great history for 600 million.
The Queens play in a quaint stadium that the taxpayers have long since owned and have had a happy existence letting the sports franchise just rent it. Until all the buzz about getting bigger, and better and building a new statism so the metropolitan sports commission decided to let the Queens use it for free. True story.
Zygi: We need a new stadium.
State Legislators: Why?
Zygi: So we can compete. You'll get your money back in hotel taxes, liquor taxes, parking etc.
Legislators: I dunno. It's a lot of money.
California dude: I'll do it. Move the team here.
Mn Legislators: We can't let them leave. This is a great town. We're growing. Be as big as San Francisco in a few years, and just as sophisticated.
Mark (Zygi's brother) : Very cosmopolitan.
Goodell: Build something somewhere and my NFL will stuff loads of cash in your shorts. It will double the price of the franchise, you'll get the Super Bowl at some point and the *goshdarn* idiot legislature will think you're a genius even though you own it and they're paying the bill.
Intermission
Act 2. A brand new state of the art stadium has been built and the Queens trot on to the field for opening day. The tax paying peasants weep at the gates.
Rich dude: Want to sell this team?
Zygi: meh. Sure. 1.5 Billion?
Rich dude: Done.
Mark: What did we net?
Zygi: Little more than double. What do you want to do next?