Hey, Bill's Mafia. We know there's only one topic every day, all bills all the time.

And now Matt Bovet and Sal Capaccio are going really deep, talking bills all year long, because it's always game day in Buffalo.

This is quite literally our favorite episode to do every year. And I can speak for my co-host, who you can see as well, Matt Bovet. Sal Capacho here, Matt Bovay. But it's so popular. I said, Matt, we have to reintroduce ourselves to new listeners and new viewers to the podcast because there's so many people who come in just for, you know, information about the NFL and the schedule. Hi, everybody. I'm Sal. and this is it's always game day in Buffalo. And that's Matt Bovay, my co-host. And we're going to have Mike North on today, who is one of the head schedule makers for the National Football League. You know, Mike can decide what he wants to tell us. We can get like really, really famous if he drops some major news on this podcast. If that happens, hey, we're not going to say

no to that. But obviously, we love this podcast because we are scheduled nerds. We love trying to

figure out how this is all pieced together. I think that's one of the best parts of the off

season is trying to figure out what the schedule is going to look like. And there is nobody on the

planet who understands that

more than Mike North, which is why we enjoy talking to him so much. Sal Capaccio, WGR Sports Radio

550 in Buffalo, Matt Beauvais, Channel 7, WKBW TV sports director in Buffalo, the ABC affiliate.

They have a lot at stake, of course, when it comes to the schedule. And we're going to bring in

right now NFL vice president of broadcast planning. Mike North, Mike's joined me going back many years now. And then over the last few years, Matt and I have been doing this together. And Mike, we always appreciate your time. Thank you so much for coming on again. Happy to do it, boys. Always happy to see you. So, Mike, this year's a little different for the NFL. I want to start here, which is this is the latest Labor Day you can possibly have on the calendar. And because of that,

your week one and week two kind of has to look a little bit different because you guys have

done the Friday game, the international game. That can't happen this year. And we're going to

have the opening of the Seahawks and the banner and then

Australia. What were the challenges of making that work this year? And if you could just kind of update

everybody on what that's going to look like week one. Yeah, you've got it exactly right. When

Labor Day falls later into September like it does this year, we don't start until the Thursday after Labor Day Monday.

And what you were referencing about playing on Friday night at week one, like we've been able to do the last

couple of years, that's due to the Sports Broadcasting Act. So the NFL, starting with the, what is it,

second Friday in September through the second Saturday in December,

we don't play. We don't play Friday nights to avoid conflicts with high school, and we don't

play Saturdays to avoid conflicts with the colleges. So when we were contemplating playing a game

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