This year’s doggone paw-fect game will once again take place on Super Bowl Sunday, airing on Animal Planet and streaming on Discovery+, featuring adorable and adoptable puppy players from Team Fluff and Team Ruff facing off in the hopes of getting their paws on the coveted “Lombarky” trophy—and on a future forever family! For 2022, the “original call-to-adoption” TV event features more than 100 canine athletes hailing from dozens of shelters and rescues across the East Coast: Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland, ME; Center for Animal Health & Welfare, PA; Charlie’s Crusaders Pet Rescue, MS; Danbury Animal Welfare Society DAWS, CT; Dog Star Rescue, CT; Foster Dogs Inc., NY; Green Dogs Unleashed, VA; House of Paws, NY; Last Chance Animal Rescue, MD; Match Dog Rescue, NJ; Muddy Paws, NY; Operation Paws for Homes, VA; Pack Leaders Rescue of CT, CT; Paws Crossed Animal Rescue, NY; Pet Animal Welfare Society (PAWS CT), CT; Pets with Disabilities, MD; Providence Animal Center, PA; Rescue City, NY; Rescue Dogs Rock, NY; Roar Animal Rescue, CT and Rutland County Humane, VT. Click through our photo gallery to meet the adorable lineup of MVPs—that’s most valuable pups, of course!—competing in the 2022 Puppy Bowl. And be sure to catch them in action when the 2022 Puppy Bowl airs on Animal Planet and streams on Discovery+ on Sunday, Feb. 13 (a.k.a. Super Bowl Sunday) with an hour-long pregame that starts at 1 p.m. ET before the Puppy Bowl itself gets underway at 2 p.m. ET.
