Goodell: 34 teams needed to land LA one

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the league would need to expand to 34 teams if a Los Angeles franchise was admitted to the competition.

In Thursday night's interview on NBC Sports' "Costas Live" program, Goodell said the league did not want to expand to 33 teams and did not want to see any other franchises relocate to Los Angeles.

"We want to keep our teams where they are," he said, adding that two teams would need to be added to the list of 32 franchises, presumably to prevent the scheduling problems an uneven number of teams would cause.

Asked how soon a Los Angeles team could be playing, Goodell said he believed the two groups working on plans to develop a stadium in the city had a great deal of potential.

But he said building a team was not as easy as it sounded.

"That's the dilemma. Not only do we have to get the stadium in LA, then we have to find out how to get the team," he said.