During a Sept. 6 meeting at the NFL offices in New York, commissioner Roger Goodell told Los Angeles Councilwoman Jan Perry and political aide Bernard Parks, Jr. that neither the league nor any team interested in moving there would agree to the business proposal set forth by Anschutz Entertainment Group, according to three sources with knowledge of the conversation. AEG is the private company that has offered to build and operate a retractable-roof stadium, which would be named Farmers Field, on the site that is currently part of the Los Angeles Convention Center. While one source said that Goodell was optimistic about many parts of the proposal, it was clear that significant changes must occur before the league would be interested. “He was very complimentary of a lot of the project, so it wasn’t all negative,†a second source said. “But he laid out the problems the league sees.†Source: Jason Cole, Yahoo! Sports
