Today I am very excited. First, Payton Manning is going to be prancing all over a football field in tight little pants. If you don't know who Payton Manning is, he's the tall dude in the Sprint commercials who wears a fake mustache, cleverly disguising himself as someone OTHER than Payton Manning. It's a pretty water-tight ruse, but if you can manage to crack the spy getup, you'll see that he's a pretty funny guy underneath that horrible wig.

Secondly, today is also they day of the Puppy Bowl, which if you ask me is MUCH more entertaining than the Super Bowl. The Puppy Bowl airs on Animal Planet and features a lot of puppies in a room painted to look like a football field. Sometimes they're bad (well, more than sometimes), and a referee has to come in and blow the whistle and call a foul. The offending dog will usually get benched. The referee is my favorite part. He's usually some college intern type person dressed in full costume. Sometimes he has to come out and clean up the accidents. It's HILARIOUS. I bet that guy's friends and family are really proud. The Puppy Bowl also features a kitten half time show, which is also funny because kittens are a lot more aggressive than people think. It's good to flip back and forth between the two. Last year we watched the Super Bowl intermittantly between swilling beer and eating pizza, but afterwards we turned the TV to Animal Planet and we were positively entranced. We watched for HOURS. And this was room with mostly men.

Hurrah for football pants, bad animals on TV (as opposed to the bad animals I'm currently raising, two of which tried to drink bleach water this morning)and for pizza.