Power went out at the Superdome early in the third quarter of the Super Bowl, leading to a 35-minute delay with the Baltimore Ravens leading the San Francisco 49ers 28-6 on Sunday.
The majority of the lights failed shortly after Jacoby Jones returned the opening kickoff of the second half for a touchdown.
Play finally resumed with 13:22 left in the third quarter.
During the outage, the public address announcer said the Superdome was experiencing an interruption of electrical service and encouraged fans to stay in their seats.
Some fans did the wave to pass the time. Players milled around on the sidelines, some took a seat on the bench, other on the field. A few of the Ravens threw footballs around.
Officials gathered on the field and appeared to be talking to stadium personnel. Finally, the lights came back on throughout the stadium, which appeared to have been operating on auxiliary power.
There was no immediate explanation for the power failure, which apparently was limited to the Superdome. The lights were on along the main thoroughfare outside the stadium.
(AP)
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I’m waiting for the sleuth of 5 or 6 commentors stating “why does this story belong on YWN”
Ray for President! Go Ravens!
I hope this has not led to an additional 1/2 hour of Bittul Toroh.
come on guys just post it!
EVEN AFTER THEY WON YOUR NOT GONNAS RUN THE PODY?
This evening, during the game the was a special Ovos Ubonim program at Rabbi Berger’s Shul and apparently it had more than 1000 participants. Now that is a Kidush Hashem.
Here come the LIPA jokes…
@jewishflorida here you go 😉
Why is this on YWN? What is it’s relationship to yiddishkeit? Had to be first to say it LOL 😉
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And it was in their zchus that the Ravens won.
click on this link to read about the unbelievable avos u’banim program occurring in Baltimore last night during the super bowl.
http://baltimorejewishlife.com/news/news-detail.php?SECTION_ID=1&ARTICLE_ID=35427