IRVING, Texas • Two influential National Football League owners said Tuesday that they expected and hoped owners would vote in January on moving a team to Los Angeles.
Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt called it a likelihood.
“It’s important to have a deadline and make a decision,” Hunt said.
“This needs to get done,” said New York Giants owner John Mara. “You can’t go too much longer than that and be ready to play a season in 2016 in a different place.”
Both Hunt and Mara are members of the NFL’s Committee on Los Angeles Opportunities, which is vetting competing L.