Pittsburgh Steelers executives aren’t the only ones eagerly awaiting a decision from Aaron Rodgers on whether he plans to play football this season.

Creating the NFL schedule is a complicated process that requires tens of thousands of computers coming up with countless possibilities over a process that lasts about four months.

Tom Brady had just retired, Russell Wilson was in Seattle and the free-agent frenzy hadn’t even started when the NFL schedule makers started to dig in after the Super Bowl on putting together the complex puzzle of a 272-game schedule.

Star Line Ferry crew rescues girl in water off the Straits of MackinacThe crew of a Mackinac Island ferry is being credited for rescuing a young girl whose inner tube was blown away from a beach in northern Michigan. The Star Line Mackinac Island Ferry says the girl drifted Monday about a quarter-mile (0.4 kilometers) from Mackinaw City before the crew reached her. Mike North, a captain for Star Line, tells the Petoskey News-Review that the ferry Joliet was docked in Mackinaw City to load passengers when they learned the girl was adrift. He, another captain and other crew members went out and rescued the girl. North said the girl was OK, just a little scared, and a little cold. Photos posted on social media show crew members helping a girl in a bathing suit up a ladder and onto the ferry.