Reporting from Tampa, Fla. -- The NFL is willing to consider a return to its Los Angeles roots.

Evidently, so are the San Diego Chargers.
While the league is kicking around the notion of playing the 50th Super Bowl in L.A. -- where the first one took place -- the onetime L.A. Chargers appear to be inching closer to a possible return to their birthplace.

As is always the case with the on-again, off-again saga of the NFL's flirtation with the nation's second-largest market, nothing is written in stone. In fact, it's more like murky skywriting, completely at the mercy of the fickle winds of change.

What would a revamped Coliseum look like? Developer Ed Roski unveiled this model (above) of the Coliseum in 1999. That was the year that L.A. was in the running for an expansion franchise that would eventually go to Houston (as in the Texans) because city officials and the NFL could not agree on a stadium site or financing.

This model gives an idea of the scope of the project if Ed Roski and partners were to build a stadium in the City of Industry.