“This is not a new issue. This isn’t something that came up a year ago, or three years ago, or five years ago. This is probably 15 years of an inability to get a stadium done, and we will all take a share of responsibility of that.”

While the Chargers are LA bound in 2017, the Raiders’ plans to move from Oakland to Las Vegas seemingly collapsed when Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson withdrew his $650 million investment and backed out of the city’s $1.9 billion stadium project. Then banking behemoth Goldman Sachs pulled out.

“We haven’t made a determination about Las Vegas as an NFL market,” Goodell said. “That’s part of the relocation process. The Raiders submitted an application. It’s one that we’re considering carefully, but there’s a great deal more work to be done.

“Financing of the stadium is just one. Obviously the stadium project itself. The depth of the market. All of those are things that we’ve studied over the last several months, but that will increase in intensity over the next month or so as we move forward in the process.”

In his strongest language yet, Goodell said organized gambling in Las Vegas can co-exist with the NFL — something that wasn’t even close to being the case in terms of league policy just a few years ago.