Word broke over the weekend that the NFL is reportedly planning on having one or two of its current teams relocate to Los Angeles in the next year or so.

Two? Two!

This would seem like major news, except it at least felt like it didn't cause much of a blip in the public conscious. That probably alludes to the public's exhaustion at the decades old ploy of threatening local governments with L.A. stealing their NFL team – fear and loathing of Los Angeles.

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That might be why the NFL is upping the ante … we aren't just taking one team but two. This is double-dog serious now.

This was all courtesy of a Pro Football Talk report citing a "league source." There is no doubt that a league source told Mike Florio that. It's possible that the source actually even believes that "the current plan is that the NFL will send one or two teams back to Los Angeles within the next 12 to 24 months."

There is certainly enough smoke from the league, or at least the St. Louis Rams, that everyone really means it this time. So hey, anything's possible.

Still, this looks like the same old NFL power play in an effort to terrify fans in Oakland, San Diego and St. Louis, which will then cause politicians to crumble and provide additional public funding for the construction of new stadiums for the Raiders, Chargers and Rams.

The NFL is smart, wickedly so. As a collective business, it knows all the tricks. Individually, its 31 owners – plus the collective that owns the Packers – represent some of the most successful businessmen, or their families, in America.

The business of the NFL is business, and business is often rough and ruthless and not for the faint of heart.

So this is, in many ways, a nod of respect to the NFL's game. The L.A. relocation threat is on a win streak that would make the 1972 Dolphins jealous.

But really, two franchises moving? Anyone buying that or does it just sounds like a way to up the pressure on St. Louis, which might figure that as long as its stadium isn't as bad as Oakland's then it is safe? Or San Diego and Oakland thinking they're in the clear since the Rams seem to be making the most noise about possibly heading west.

Now no one is safe. So everyone must build. Apparently, two teams are eager to move to a town without a stadium even though it's supposedly been planning on building a stadium for a generation or two.

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