Meet the 2017 Puppy Bowl players: Photos, starting lineups

You love dogs and you love football so the Puppy Bowl returns for its 13th installment at GEICO Stadium Sunday, February 5.

This year's main event features 78 puppies from 34 rescues from all around the United States and will be separated into “Team Ruff” and “Team Fluff.”

If that many puppies is not enough to warm your heart, then the amount of coverage will have no problem in doing so. Puppy Bowl XIII festivities begin with a "Tail"gate pregame show at 2 p.m. ET before the main event kicks off at 3 p.m. ET.

(For those cat people out there, the halftime show will be performed by the Chicago Rock Cats and Kitty Gaga.)

As for the game itself, spectators as well as history should have their eyes on Alexander Hamilpup on Team Fluff, who is just 19 weeks old but proved to be young, scrappy and hungry all throughout the season. His teammate Legs will surely be one of the most inspiring storylines to follow as he has just three legs due to a crate accident yet still flashes great speed.

Team Ruff is headed by the rather wrinkly but still adorable Smooshie. The team's feel-good storyline comes from Doobert who is totally deaf but is actually in the process of learning hand signals from his owners. That's right...signal calling is coming to the Puppy Bowl.

Check out some of the dogs in the game below:

Meet the 2017 Puppy Bowl’s Sweet and Strong Starting Line Up of Shelter Pups

Alexander Hamilpup

Team: Fluff — Breed: Pomsky — Age: 19 weeks — Shelter: Florida Little Dog Rescue in Florida

Beebop

Team: Ruff — Breed: Terrier Mix — Age: 16 weeks — Shelter: Stray Rescue in Missouri

Blitz

Team: Fluff — Breed: Golden Retriever — Age: 15 weeks — Shelter: Miami-Dade County Animal Services in Florida

Bo

Team: Ruff — Breed: Parson Russell Terrier Mix — Age: 15 weeks — Shelter: SPCA LA in California

Daisy

Team: Ruff — Breed: Chihuahua Mix — Age: 13 weeks — Shelter: Last Hope K9 in Massachusetts

Daphne

Team: Ruff — Breed: Pit Bull — Age: 19 weeks — Shelter: Operation Education Animal Rescue

Dawson

Team: Fluff — Breed: Jack Russell/Terrier Mix — Age: 14 weeks — Shelter: Paw Works in California

Hope

Team: Fluff — Breed: Labrador/Hound Mix — Age: 19 weeks — Shelter: Unleashed in New York

Lucky

Team: Fluff — Breed: Terrier Mix — Age: 16 weeks — Shelter: Operation Education Animal Rescue in Tennessee

Max

Team: Fluff — Breed: Pit Bull Mix — Age: 13 weeks — Shelter: Morris Animal Refuge in Pennsylvania

Nikita

Team: Fluff — Breed: Cocker Spaniel/Bichon Friese Mix — Age: 18 weeks — Shelter: Florida Little Dog Rescue in Florida

Nyquist

Team: Fluff — Breed: Husky/Shepherd Mix — Age: 15 weeks — Shelter: Bonnie's Animal Rescue Kingdom in New Jersey

Oliver

Team: Fluff — Breed: Standard Poodle — Age: 12 weeks — Shelter: Florida Little Dog Rescue in Florida

Panda

Team: Fluff — Breed: Sato (Puerto Rican Terrier) — Age: 18 weeks — Shelter: The Sato Project in Puerto Rico

Parfait

Team: Fluff — Breed: Yorkie/Poodle Mix — Age: 17 weeks — Shelter: Florida Little Dog Rescue in Florida

Peanut

Team: Fluff — Breed: Brussels Griffon Mix — Age: 19 weeks — Shelter: Nevada SPCA in Nevada

Precious

Team: Fluff — Breed: Pit Bull Terrier Mix — Age: 15 weeks — Shelter: ASPCA NY in New York

Puddles

Team: Ruff — Breed: Cocker/Shih Tzu Mix — Age: 13 weeks — Shelter: Florida Little Dog Rescue in Florida

Rory

Team: Fluff — Breed: Poodle Mix — Age: 17 weeks — Shelter: Florida Little Dog Rescue in Florida

Sable

Team: Fluff — Breed: Husky/Lab Mix — Age: 13 weeks — Shelter: Animal Friends Humane Society in Ohio

Smooshie

Team: Ruff — Breed: Shar Pei — Age: 12 weeks — Shelter: Florida Little Dog Rescue in Florida

Squirt

Team: Ruff — Breed: Dachshund/Rat Terrier Mix — Age: 12 weeks — Shelter: Denver Dumb Friends League in Colorado

Striker

Team: Ruff — Breed: Miniature Pinscher/Shih Tzu Mix — Age: 18 weeks — Shelter: Operation Paws for Homes in Virginia

Sully

Team: Ruff — Breed: Spaniel Mix — Age: 12 weeks — Shelter: Humane Society Nashua in New Hampshire

Tucker

Team: Fluff — Breed: Australian Shepherd Mix — Age: 16 weeks — Shelter: Williamson County Animal Shelter in Tennessee

Wilma

Team: Fluff — Breed: Pug/Shih Tzu Mix — Age: 16 weeks — Shelter: New Life Animal Rescue in New Jersey

Winston

Team: Fluff — Breed: Australian Shepherd — Age: 14 weeks — Shelter — Double J Dog Ranch in Idaho

Woody

Team: Ruff — Breed: Blue Healer/Cattle Mix — Age: 18 weeks — Shelter: Barktown Rescue in Kentucky

The Puppy Bowl can be watched on Animal Planet.