Puppy Bowl IX preview: Meet the pups and chat with this year’s poop-scooping referee

The Puppy Bowl, Animal Planet's furry fit of Super Bowl counterprogramming, returns for its ninth year of tail-wagging and terrier touchdowns on Sunday afternoon.

Join Yahoo! News' Dylan Stableford and Dan Schachner, who is returning for his sophomore season as a Puppy Bowl referee, at 2:30 p.m. ET Friday to preview all the pup-on-pup action, or what Schachner calls "a furry game of Twister."

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