Puppy Bowl 2023 winner recap: Team Fluff takes top dog with MVP Pickle
nypost.comflagged for a number of fouls – while some were a play on words in tandem with the NFL’s terminology, others are simply made up on the fly. “Turd on the 20,” for example, is something only these untrained pups could be fouled for – or so we hope.“We try to find new ones that are applied to dogs,” Schachner said. “It’s all about trying to be creative with the penalties that exist in the NFL and apply them to dogs.”Team Fluff got off to a roaring start, with powerhouse Pomeranian Pickle stealing the show by scoring the team’s first two touchdowns, taking the first toy all the way into the end zone and into the tunnel.
He ran for over 300 yards without an interference in the first touchdown!It was a real nail-biter as DaVinci, a Poodle/Labrador Retriever, scored Team Ruff’s first touchdown of the game, setting the score 14-7.
He may have given Team Ruff some hope, but at the end of the first quarter, Team Fluff was in the lead yet again, with Beagle/Pomeranian/Australian Cattle Dog Wolfie scoring a touchdown, putting them ahead 21-7.
Woof! DaVinci came back swinging–literally–in the beginning of the second quarter, scoring another touchdown for Team Ruff. Little Mighty, an American Pit Bull Terrier/American Staffordshire Terrier, took his cue from his teammate and touched down big time again, putting the game in a tie halfway through the second quarter.A battle then ensued between mixed-bread Espresso and Kokobean, an American Pitbull Terrier mix, with Espresso snagging the toy from her opponent, but ultimately dropping it.
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