AP

While the FAA is reviewing the proposed stadium that Rams owner Stan Kroenke wants to build in Inglewood, California to make sure there’s no danger related to its proximity to Los Angeles International Airport, the NFL had a meeting with St. Louis officials who are trying to keep the team in town.

NFL executive vice president Eric Grubman was in St. Louis Thursday to meet with Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, Rams COO Kevin Demoff and stadium task force leaders Dave Peacock and Bob Blitz as well as advisers from Goldman Sachs and the architecture firm HOK. They provided Grubman with an update on the stadium they want to build in the city ahead of an August 11 league meeting to discuss potential moves into the Los Angeles area.

“We continue to make progress,” Peacock said, via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “And it was a good update. We covered a lot of important ground, and we’ll continue meeting with the NFL. I think the NFL delegation was very pleased with the progress being made on the stadium. The feedback was positive. But we still have work to do, and we know that.”

The bid for a new stadium faces a pair of legal challenges concerning city and state financing that could hinder their chances of getting the NFL behind the project. One focuses on the use of a hotel-motel tax for city funds and the other deals with the bonds the state wants to use as financing and a setback on either front could make it difficult for the project to prove its viability compared to the efforts in Inglewood.