The Los Angeles Rams will face the Los Angeles Raiders in 2018, if the two franchises and two committees sway the NFL to make a move in 2015.
CBSSports.com is reporting that the league has called a special meeting involving its stadium and finance committees, both of which including the NFL's most influential owners, for later in November, and league sources said that the topic of relocation of teams to Los Angeles could find its way into that meeting.
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It is the NFL that stands in the way of the Oakland Raiders' and St. Louis Rams' desires to return to the West Coast, according to another CBSSports.com report. The NFL has told the two franchises that they will not secure the 24 votes among the league's owners to approve their relocation unless they have stadium, property and development deals in place that have the approval of the NFL.
But having a meeting involving the two committees is rare this late in the season, CBSSports.com adds. Both committees include owners who are pushing for relocation to Los Angeles to take place. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is on the stadium committee and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is on the finance committee, and both owners have urged their NFL counterparts about returning professional football to Los Angeles in the past.
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The owners of both committees already have taken part in a series of conference calls discussing various projects under consideration in Southern California to lure franchises
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NFL officials have stressed that the meeting later this month is focused on funding and development issues concerning current stadiums or those under construction, and that the topic of relocation is not on the agenda.
Several sources with knowledge of the upcoming meeting, however, told CBSSports.com they anticipated relocation being part of the discussions. Some owners, CBSSports.com reported, are hoping that Los Angeles inherit at least one team by 2015.
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