Live blogging Puppy Bowl IV
>> Sunday
2:01 - I can't believe how many of these dogs are either lying on all fours or playing with chew toys during the national anthem. That's plain disrespectful.
2:03 - As the anthem ends, they all howl. I think that's like the equivalent of booing in Romania. Strike two, muts.
2:05 - The first "touchdown." I can't believe this is actually a three hours show. My bet: By hour three, the puppies are all asleep or gnawing their paws.
2:06 - There's a puppy who appears determined to tear off another puppy's taint, and yet the camera remains fixed on this brutal scene.
2:09 - I am bored out of my mind.
2:11 - You can vote online for Most Valuable Puppy! My early pick: Panda. He's like the Desmond Howard of Puppy Bowl IV.
2:13 - A commercial. Thank God.
2:16 - Show resumes. They're introducing a new "lineup," which I'm guessing happens after each commercial break. So much for my bet.
2:17 - New MVP favorite: Bruin, a 44-pound killer Alaskan hunting dog that "loves fish." I fear he will devour one of the other dogs (probably the one that looks most like a fish). He is literally three times larger than any other dog out there.
2:18 - I feel bad for the guy playing the ref. "Puppy penalty! Holding." He will be haunted by this gig the rest of his life.
2:19 - I am bored out of my soul.
2:20 - There's a camera in the water bowl that lets you see the dogs' faces through the water as they drink. It's adorable, by which I mean disgusting.
2:22 - Turns out Bruin is a big lazy oaf, but there's some other large dog (part golden lab, I think) who's out for the kill right now. Go for the throat! The throat! Kill him!
2:24 - "This game has gone to the dogs!" I am shocked they waited a full 24 minutes to say that.
2:24 - Second commercial break. Ok, I'm done. I have places to be. I can't believe there's three hours of this nonsense... Three hours.
2:44 - No longer watching Puppy Bowl but the NBA instead, and Bill Walton just used the phrase "unbridled enthusiasm." I think he's been reading too many Billy Mumphrey stories.
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Read your post and immediately flipped to Animal Planet to see what you were talking about. They were in the midst of the "Kitty Halftime Show." Which was probably everything you'd think it would be.
Also a testament to the kind of crappy programming the non-Super Bowl-carrying channels put up today, the online listings claim that this afternoon BBC America will be airing, "474-lb Teenager" which either sounds like a 1950s Monster B-Movie, or a hilarious sitcom in the not-too-distant future.
This will be followed by a special entitled "My Small Breasts and I."
I beg to differ. Not only were three of us adults visiting with my father, but another family visiting their family member at the nursing home today really enjoyed this. There obviously was an audience for this show. The Kitty Halftime Show was really awful as Mike will agree.
It just goes to show that us cocky young punks miss out on the simple joys of life, though the fact that it kept me enthralled for 24 minutes might say that I secretly loved it, which I did. Cute, cute puppies! Ooooohhhh, so CUTE!
Unbelievable... There were other people that liveblogged this... and actually kept it up all three hours. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLR,GGLR:2006-41,GGLR:en&q=liveblogging+puppy+bowl
My God, is that a sad commentary on this country.
Sad, yet unsurprising.
Remember, this is the same country where NASCAR (Aka: The National 500 Left-turns League) is the #2 sport for television ratings.
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