Puppy Bowl 2021: time, channel, setup and everything you need to know

Puppy Bowl 2021: time, channel, setup and everything you need to know

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This is Puppy Bowl time.

With 70 puppies from 22 different shelters, Sunday’s event will place Team Ruff against Team Fluff in a dog soccer match for a common goal: to be adopted.

Here’s what you need to know.

What is even the Puppy Bowl?

Do not be phased by the Roman numerals. This is Puppy Bowl no. 17, the latest in a tradition that began in 2005.

Pups are split into two teams and placed in a dog-sized football stadium to compete for ‘touchdowns’, but there is also a national anthem performance, a break show, play-by-play commentary and a ‘ruffle’ ‘.

Puppies play during Puppy Bowl XVII.
The captain of the winning team gets a ‘Chewy Lombarky Trophy’, but really, all the dogs win.
In the last 16 occasions, 100% of the puppies and kittens have been adopted. (Yes, there are kittens – more on that later.)

The Puppy Bowl is about celebrating adopted little ones and the shelters and staff that help them.

Who competes?

This year’s Puppy Bowl features dogs from nine northeastern states.

Puppies play at Puppy Bowl XVII.

You meet Marshall, a deaf Boston Terrier mix trainer to be a therapy dog ​​for Covid-19 nurses.

You learn more about Mona, a 10-year-old Toy Poodle mix from Los Angeles who takes reiki healing sessions.

You see five players with special needs and four hearing-impaired little ones, including Jett, a Labrador mix with a double front and who likes to wander around the countryside.

And all of these players will be cheered on the sidelines for the first time by puppy cheerleaders, Animal Planet said in a statement.
You can meet the players here.

Is it just dogs?

Well, no. First, the Puppy Bowl is going to be very presidential this year.
First Lady Jill Biden recorded during the event an announcement about the public service that includes the first two dogs, Champ and Major. Major is apparently the first shelter dog with an address in the White House.
First Lady Jill Biden with first dogs Champ and Major.
The longtime friends Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart will host, with Dan Schachner as the game’s ‘rufferee’. Schachner will celebrate ten years of “puffing” for the Puppy Bowl, ruffhousing and touch.
Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg.

ESPN’s play-by-play broadcaster Steve Levy and “SportsCenter” presenter Sage Steele will provide human commentary.

And then – there are the kittens. Adoptable kittens will live their lives at the annual Kitty Halftime Show.

Okay … I’m sold. Where do I look?

You can watch this three-hour event on Discovery + and Animal Planet on Sunday, February 7, at 2:00 PM ET.

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