After decades of discussion, will pro football finally return to Los Angeles?
Meeting in Dallas for this week's slate of league meetings, NFL owners laid the groundwork for a pivotal vote on the issue set for Jan. 12 in Houston.
"It's hard to see one of the proposals as getting 24 votes," Colts owner Jim Irsay told reporters on Wednesday, adding: "I don't think we're extremely close right now."
Irsay didn't express much optimism about the NFL returning to Los Angeles in 2016, but that didn't stop interested teams from lobbying for relocation during this week's meetings.