Puppy Bowl IX on Animal Planet Adds Hedgehog Cheerleaders
Puppy Bowl IX will air Sunday prior to Super Bowl XLVII.
Take 63 puppies playing faux football and add nine hedgehog cheerleaders in tutus and 21 kittens performing during a halftime show and you've got what might be an overload of cuteness — it's Puppy Bowl IX! Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl IX will air from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday. The Los Angeles Times sums up the premise: During the low-key football game, the puppies are placed on a 3-by-6 yard field with a bunch of plush chew toys shaped like footballs, ducks and sausages and are left alone to play. Eventually a puppy will manage to drag a chew toy into an end zone and the referee, Dan Schachner, will declare a touchdown has been scored. And don't forget the half-dozen hamster reporters that fly above the puppy stadium in a blimp! According to The…
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