Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl The release of the 2012 NFL regular season schedule is met with great anticipation by some fans, but it’s met with a shrug by others, who wonder why it’s such a big deal that the league is announcing the dates of games, even though we’ve all known all year which teams are playing each other, we just haven’t known when. But for those who wonder how big a deal it really is, Judy Battista of the New York Times has a good writeup of the Herculean effort undertaken by Howard Katz, the NFL’s scheduling czar, who has a computer spit out a number of potential schedules but then has to painstakingly go through all the potential scenarios, looking for pitfalls that could cause problems.