The Puppy Bowl: Sunday’s other big game

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.149999618530273px;">Posted by </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/maura-judkis/2011/03/04/gIQAUSQrnO_page.html" rel="author external" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.149999618530273px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Visit Maura Judkis’s website">Maura Judkis</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.149999618530273px;"> on February 3, 2013 at </span><span class="get-the-time" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.149999618530273px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9:45 am From: </span>http://www.washingtonpost.com<br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are three guarantees of Super Bowl Sunday:</div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;">There will be tortilla chips, so many tortilla chips.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;">There will be commercials that will</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;"> </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/volkswagen-super-bowl-ad-accused-of-being-racist/2013/01/29/36d81e38-6a60-11e2-95b3-272d604a10a3_story.html" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">give you pause</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;">.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;">A few channels away, there will be roly-poly puppies with soft bellies and floppy ears,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">widdle</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;">black noses and football-shaped toys,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 28px;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">squeeee.</em><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On Animal Planet’s ninth annual Puppy Bowl, which begins Sunday at 3 p.m. and airs on repeat for the rest of the day, you don’t have to pick a team to root for. The puppies always win.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Gallery: Behind the scenes at the Puppy Bowl (Linda Davidson/for The Washington Post)" src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/files/2013/02/puppybowl.jpg" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-puppy-bowl-behind-the-scenes-of-tvs-cutest-show/2013/01/25/f7fe46f4-6642-11e2-93e1-475791032daf_gallery.html" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gallery: Behind the scenes at the Puppy Bowl</a> </strong><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">(Linda Davidson/for The Washington Post)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">I spent two days at the Puppy Bowl taping last November for Sunday Style’s <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/inside-the-puppy-bowl-the-visionary-force-behind-online-cute/2013/01/28/0600875a-6191-11e2-a389-ee565c81c565_story_4.html" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">behind-the-scenes look at the cutest show on TV</a>, and its impact on Internet culture. A few things that you won’t see on the show: Anxious hovering of hedgehog parents, performance-enhancing drugs (read: catnip) administered to the kitties and this scene:</div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 2px; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I don’t know why, but everyone else refused to do this job,” said Jessi Baden-Campbell, the unlucky line producer for Discovery Studios, as she stepped onto the 10-by-19-foot “field” with cleaning solution in hand. She may be the busiest person in the Puppy Bowl. In minutes her services are needed again.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(219, 219, 219); border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 2px; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We’ve got a puker!” calls out a cameraman.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">And again.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Someone made a touchdown right here!” calls out another, using a euphemism for a moment you probably won’t see on TV.</div></blockquote><img alt="Gallery: Meet the Puppy Bowl "athletes." (Adele Godfrey/Animal Planet)" src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/files/2013/02/puppybowl2.jpg" /><br /><br /></div>

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