Puppy Bowl II

Last evening, after a football themed luncheon at church, we had our Sr. High Youth Group over to our house to watch the Superbowl. Many people in our area root for both the Eagles and Steelers, so this is two years in a row that the Superbowl seemed to generate some extra excitement amongst us.

We never watch the halftime show, partly because it's often risque, but mostly because it's stupid. During that half-hour, I discovered an equally stupid offering on Animal Planet that was twice as offensive as Janet Jackson could ever be.

The show was called "Puppy Bowl II." Apparently it aired last year as well.

Basically, the show consisted of about eight puppies running around on a green, football striped carpet. Scattered around the carpet were a few chew toys. On each end of the carpet were water bowls that had cameras in them.

There was no commentary. No scoring. No teams. Just eight puppies running around in silence on a green carpet. When one would take a drink, Animal Planet would switch to the "bowl cam" so you could watch the dog lap up water painfully close. Gross.

And even though there were no announcers giving play-by-play commentary, the program was closed captioned. Genius.

The odd thing was that this show drew us all in. No one could believe that a national cable station was airing something so lame. I'm convinced that most of us were there just hoping that one of those dogs would stain the carpet after taking a drink.

Halftime couldn't have been more offensive.