SAN FRANCISCO -- This week's NFL spring owners meetings will again run the gamut of topics for the league to discuss with the Los Angeles situation at the forefront of the minds of many in St. Louis, Los Angeles, Oakland and San Diego. Of course, it will also cover much more than that.
Recent happenings on the deflated balls and New England Patriots situations as well as continued rule change discussions are also expected to be on the docket. Over at LATimes.com, Sam Farmer has a comprehensive look at what to expect over the next few days when the owners get together.
On the Los Angeles and relocation situation, NFL executive Eric Grubman minces no words about the importance of these meetings in helping to shape the future of football in Los Angeles as well as St. Louis, San Diego and Oakland.
"This is an important meeting," Grubman told the Los Angeles Times. "We've made a tremendous amount of progress, and we really need to lift the veil on the key process steps, so that membership can go into the summer comfortable with where this might be headed."
Among the other topics expected to be discussed here are three extra point proposals, potential future Super Bowl sites and more. The meetings are set to begin Tuesday and wrap up early Wednesday afternoon.
I.C.Y.M.I.
A roundup of the weekend's Rams stories appearing on ESPN.com. ... The Rams made a pair of minor roster moves, bringing in undrafted center David Wang. ... Don't expect the Rams to rush into signing their drafted rookies. ... In part 1 of the weekend mailbag, we talked about whether the Rams are closer to contention. ... In part 2 of the mailbag, we previewed these owners meetings and looked at some other hot topics around the Rams. ... Finally, in case you missed it, Rams running back Steven Jackson says he wants to keep playing but when the time comes, he hopes to retire a Ram.
Elsewhere:
Eagles reporter Phil Sheridan asks whether the team adding quarterback Sam Bradford is a bad thing for them in 2015.
As usual, a great read from ESPN The Magazine Senior Writer David Fleming on Bo Jackson and Brian Bosworth.
At 101sports.com, the possibility and impact of a Major League Soccer team coming to St. Louis in helping the NFL stay is discussed.
At stltoday.com, Bernie Miklasz writes that Dave Peacock is keeping St. Louis' options open on having a team play in a proposed new stadium.
Nine of the St. Louis city alderman are calling for a public vote on funding the new stadium idea.