Four-legged fur balls take to the field in Kitten Bowl III

FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2015 file photo, a kitten plays with a toy football during a taping of Kitten Bowl III in New York. The Hallmark Channel taped Kitten Bowl III ahead of broadcast on Super Bowl Sunday, on Feb. 7. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

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By LEANNE ITALIE

NEW YORK (AP) — On the field, the four-legged fur balls of the Hallmark Channel's Kitten Bowl III were all business.

But off? Well, let's just say there were some impurr-prieties dogging these feline paw-thletes.

"Sometimes we get into an issue or two. They tend to like to really delve into the catnip, and that type of thing sometimes gets a little out of control," quipped Boomer Esiason, the Feline Football League commissioner for the Super Bowl Sunday event on Feb. 7.

It was Esiason's second turn as commissioner. He kept his tongue firmly in cheek in fending off any appearance of influence peddling this time around with the fielding of his own team of kittens, the Boomer Bobcats.

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