The NFL playoffs begin this weekend. That means four games for the next two weekends, followed by two games the weekend after that, followed by a two week media barrage of pre-Super Bowl stories, followed the Super Bowl itself. This might not sound like a great upcoming schedule for non-sports fans but there are some benefits. Deadspin.com highlighted one of them today with their coverage of a new feature that Animal Planet is adding to their 10th annual Puppy Bowl.
That’s right — it’s the Fantasy Puppy League! As we explained a few months ago, fantasy football is role playing game that millions of people play based on the statistics produced by real-life football games. There aren’t many details about this variant but I can only assume that Animal Planet will generate some kind of arbitrary stats based on the somewhat aimless activity of puppies (according to Wikipedia, in “Puppy Bowl VI, substitutions were made whenever a puppy fell asleep on the field.”)
If you are interested in learning more about the Puppy Bowl, its Wikipedia entry is a wonderful read. It contains the befuddling but compelling line, “The hamsters in the blimp and Meep the “tweeting” cockatiel were retained for the 2013 show, but the piglet cheerleaders were replaced by baby hedgehogs in tutus.”
I don’t know about you, but I’m in!
Your Nana will love this. How does she find it on tv?