Puppy Bowl 2024: Meet the Big Game’s Adorable, Adoptable Starting Lineup

Hours before the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs face off at Sunday’s Super Bowl, a much longer-running athletic rivalry will be settled between Team Ruff and Team Fluff.

Puppy Bowl XX begins at 2/1c on Animal Planet, with the game simultaneously airing on Discovery, TBS and TruTV. It will also be available to stream on Max.

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Of note, this year’s game is the biggest ever, featuring 131 total puppies from 73 shelters and rescues across the country. Puppy Bowl XX also welcomes the game’s smallest player ever in Sweetpea the Cavapoo (1.7 pounds), as well as the biggest ever in Levi the Great Dane (70 pounds). You can take a closer look at both of those standouts, along with 100+ other puppies, in the gallery below.

For adoption information, click here to visit Animal Channel’s Puppy Bowl website.

Keep scrolling to meet the puppies taking part in Puppy Bowl XX (members of the starting lineup are the ones with their own fancy trading cards), then drop a comment with your personal pick for this year’s “Most Pupular” player.

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