Buffalo/Toronto Bills
It once was widely believed that the Bills were a prime candidate to move to Los Angeles. Owner Ralph Wilson, 89, has made it clear that his family won't keep the team after his demise. So the Bills will have a new owner, eventually. And that new owner might want to transport the franchise to a much more financially viable market.

That's probably why Wilson has been working so hard to establish a presence in Toronto. If the team is on track to, say, play a split schedule between Toronto and Buffalo, the team can be sold to local interests who won't feel compelled to make the move in order to make the money.

San Francisco 49ers
As the 49ers flail away in an effort to get a new home in the Bay Area, there has been some media speculation that they could be the team to move to L.A. It's unlikely at this point, but it's impossible to rule out any team unable to finagle a new stadium.

Oakland Raiders
In a roundabout way, a return by the Raiders to Los Angeles would make sense, considering few things the Raiders do ever make much sense. It thus would be fitting if the team that made the trek from Oakland to L.A. and back to Oakland went back to Los Angeles once more. Don't rule it out.

San Diego Chargers
The closest team to L.A. is the least likely to make the leap, in part because the unspoken goal seems to be adding another NFL team to the region. Still, the Chargers have yet to figure out a long-term stadium solution, and the money that could be made from a swanky new home in Los Angeles might be too good to pass up.

An expansion team
Though the NFL supposedly doesn't want to expand, fans in Jacksonville and Minneapolis and New Orleans and other cities that could lose their teams to L.A. think expansion is a great idea.

The problem is the league's current 32-team format — with eight four-team divisions and a scheduling formula that brings every team to every stadium once every eight years — is perfect. Adding just one team wouldn't make sense. At a minimum, the NFL would need to drop two new teams into the mix, just as it did in 1976 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Seattle Seahawks and in 1995 with the Jaguars and Carolina Panthers.

There has been talk of two expansion teams landing in L.A. That certainly would be the ultimate use of Roski's stadium — instead of one team playing eight games there, two would play 16.

Still, it's unlikely that expansion would happen soon enough for the plan to dovetail with Roski's objectives.

The neutral-site option
I've written about this plan before. With the NFL considering expanding the regular season to 17 games per team, such a format would allow for 16 neutral-site games per year.

Four games could be sent to Europe, two to Canada, one to Mexico, one to China or Japan ... and eight games to Los Angeles.

It's the best way to solve the L.A. problem without pilfering another city's team. And it becomes a viable option after the various teams listed above have used the vacancy in Southern California to leverage new stadiums of their own.

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