Mike North breaks down the NFL Scheduling process

The Kevin Sheehan Show

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Sports, News

4.7 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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4.17.25, NFL schedule maker Mike North joins the Kevin Sheehan Show to explain the process of making the season schedule and how teams and matchups are prioritized.

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0:00.0	Looking for a job is lonely.
0:02.7	Endless searching, phone calls that go nowhere.
0:05.7	Applications that vanish into thin air.
0:08.3	What if you could link with dozens of local companies
0:10.6	who are hiring right now with just one connection?
0:14.8	That's Express Employment Professionals.
0:17.8	Find us at ExpressPros.com.
0:20.0	One connection?
0:25.2	Endless opportunities. And no fees ever for job seekers.
0:29.3	Express Employment Professionals. ExpressPros.com.
0:40.6	All right. Joining me right now is Mike North. Mike is the VP of Broadcast Planning for the NFL, aka the schedule maker.
0:44.2	It is really nice to have you on the show.
0:45.3	My listeners know this.
0:50.1	This is going to be a lot more fun for me than for you.
0:55.3	Sorry about that, because I'm a total schedule geek, but I guess you are as well.
0:57.2	How long have you been doing this?
1:01.2	Just past my 30-year anniversary on Monday.
1:06.7	So I'm here forever, a lifer, grateful, humble, appreciative to be here,
1:10.3	and even more so to get to work on this project.
1:12.7	I'm not the schedule maker in the intro.
1:13.4	Thank you for that.
1:15.1	I'm one of the schedule makers.
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