Puppy Bowl 2025 ref:NASCAR pit crew cleans up pooch puddles and other accidents on the field

Accidents happen.Puppy Bowl 2025 referee Dan Schachner revealed behind-the-scenes secrets about the annual event that happens right before the Super Bowl — including how they handle the furry competitors inevitably having mishaps on the field.“Every single year we try to not get delayed by it,” Schachner, 50, exclusively 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,” he continued.

“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 Schachner noted that Puppy Bowl accidents are unavoidable.“How we deal with it — because again, we’re trying to show all sides of dogs —  is we scoop it up, clean it up as quickly as possible,” he explained.“We have a team that’s almost like a NASCAR pit crew that comes in and just quickly scoops it up.

You wouldn’t know it was there after a minute, and we resume play as quickly as possible.”“But they are untrained dogs and they will do their business,” Schachner pointed out.“And we just try to move on as much as we can.”Puppy Bowl XXI is taking place Sunday, February 9, before the 2025 Super Bowl showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles.

The annual three-hour TV event will feature 142 rescue puppies, more than ever before, from 80 shelters across 40 states as they compete in the cutest competition of the year.Eleven special needs dogs will take the field this year, as well.Schachner told The Post what the “requirements” are for the pups who compete on Team Ruff or Team Fluff, with the overall goal of being adopted by viewers.“Just got to be young, cute and adoptable,” said Schachner.

“I think the age cutoff is like six months, something like that.So really it’s true puppies.

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