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Salon
Salon
Lifestyle
Melanie McFarland

A Puppy Bowl rival for furry supremacy

Networks don't pour much sweat and stress into Super Bowl counterprogramming anymore – not since Animal Planet came up with the solution to beat them all in 2005: "Puppy Bowl." Legend has it that a network executive in search of a Yule Log equivalent proposed unleashing a lineup of fuzzy poopers into a fun-sized Plexiglas "stadium" with a bunch of toys.

It is the year's most adorable way to do nothing on a midwinter Sunday.

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