Team Fluff comes back to beat Team Ruff in down-to-the-wire Puppy Bowl 2025 match up

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Puppy Bowl 2025 and are now su-paw-stars: Team Fluff.The 21st installment of the beloved rescue animal event saw Team Ruff and Team Fluff face off in Puppy Bowl XXI on Sunday.

Team Fluff took home the win with a close score of 68-66. Paws Allen, a labrador retriever mix from Buffalo, New York, scored the game’s final touchdown.The Underdog Award went to Mercury, while Foxtrot won the Most Valuable Puppy Award.The show took place before the 2025 Super Bowl game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, giving viewers a chance to catch both events.The three-hour special was broadcasted on Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, TBS, truTV, Max and discovery+.

This year, the show had 142 rescue dogs from 80 shelters across 40 states and two countries competing on both teams — more than ever before.Eleven special needs dogs also entered the field.Throughout the broadcast, the four-legged players scored touchdowns on a gridiron carpet when they crossed any goal line with a toy in their mouth.The bark of the town is a fun way to raise money and awareness for shelters across America, while showcasing adoptable dogs and other pets.Before the big show, Puppy Bowl referee Dan Schachner got candid on the behind-the-scenes workings, including how they deal with on field accidents.“Every single year we try to not get delayed by it,” he told The Post. “It’s very easy to call a delay of game.”“There’s many different euphemisms we can use like pooch puddle or fertilizing of the field, tinkle on the 20, turd and long,” Schachner explained. “There’s a lot of ways that we can describe it in a funny way.

But at the end of the day, we have a game to play. So it’s not in our best interest to show dogs doing what they do.”But at.