NFL Still All Talk on Rams : Pro football: Owners’ vote on move to St. Louis might not come until Thursday.

A decision on the Rams’ move to St. Louis will have to wait at least another day.

NFL owners met for 2 1/2 hours starting at midday Tuesday, and planned to meet for three or four more hours. But league spokesman Joe Browne said there would be no resolution.

“There’s going to be no grand announcement in terms of a vote,” Browne said at a news conference between sessions on the Rams. “There’s not much progress, if any, to report.”

Browne said a decision might come as late as Thursday, the last scheduled day of the meetings. After the first 2 1/2 hours, one NFL owner, who did not want to be identified, said the owners were no closer to a decision.

Browne, asked to characterize the discussions, said they were going “slowly.” But he said that all of the owners had gotten a chance to stand up and give their thoughts on the matter.

The Rams have been the main issue of the meetings, and now they’ll be one of the only ones. The agenda for the rest of Tuesday, Browne said, was “Rams, Rams, Rams.”

Whatever it takes to seal the deal, the settlement will come from FANS Inc., the St. Louis civic group that wooed the Rams, from the estimated $74 million in sales for personal seat licenses at the new domed stadium.

PSLs are one-time fees, ranging in price from $250-$4,500, that must be purchased before buying season tickets.

Former U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton, the president of FANS Inc., had always maintained that all of the PSL money was committed. But a private agreement between the Rams and FANS Inc. stipulates that FANS will pay all of the settlement if it doesn’t exceed a specified amount.

Eagleton and other FANS Inc. officials didn’t return phone calls Tuesday.

The NFL has maintained that the PSL money should be considered ticket revenue, and that the league should get 33%, or between $25 million. FANS Inc. previously said about $57 million of its funds from PSL sales were allocated to paying off expenses of the Rams’ move, including the Rams’ debt in Anaheim.

Rams officials shed no light on the negotiations.

Owner Georgia Frontiere made a brief appearance at the meetings but didn’t want to talk. Asked by a TV reporter what she had heard, she replied, “Just your voice.”

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Warren Sapp was supposed to be among the first five players chosen in the NFL draft.

Now that the Miami defensive tackle tested positive for marijuana at the NFL scouting combine, is he still a top pick?

To many NFL teams, including some that choose in the top five, the answer is yes. Of course, it also depends where that team is in the drafting order.

“I’ll vouch for him,” said Seattle Coach Dennis Erickson, who coached Sapp in college and has the eighth pick in next month’s draft.