Yes, it seems that the momentum for bringing at least one (and possibly two) NFL football teams to Los Angeles in the near future - the surprisingly near future -is building.
This is starting to look like it will happen.
Of course, you could argue that Los Angeles, the second biggest city in the country, should never have been without an NFL football team to begin with. In the 1994 season, Los Angeles had two teams, and had enjoyed that privileged status for over a decade.
At the start of the 1995 season, Los Angeles had no more teams. That has now been the case for basically two decades now.
There has been a lot of talk about bringing NFL football back to LA, but it never seems to materialize. There was talk of a possible expansion franchise, or bringing back one of the three current NFL franchises that used to play in LA at some point in time in their past history. Those franchises are the Chargers, the Raiders, and the Rams. The Rams specifically had played in LA for many decades before relocating to St. Louis in 1995. In 1999, four years after moving the team from LA to St. Louis, the Rams won the Super Bowl. The very next year, the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl four years after moving from Cleveland, when they had been known as the Browns (a new, expansion Cleveland Browns franchise has since replaced that one, but was granted the rights to the old Browns franchise old records).
If a team will play in Los Angeles in time for the 2016 season, it could play on a temporary basis in either the Los Angeles Coliseum, or at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
Below is a video clip of a new piece on this story:
Temporary stadium may be enough to lure NFL team back to Los Angeles by KABC – Los Angeles 2:01 mins
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