Power Outage Nearly Ruined Super Bowl, But Delay Gave 49ers Hope and Made for Entertaining Finish

As the second half of Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVII got underway, the San Francisco 49ers trailed by 15 points and a 108-yard touchdown return from Jacoby Jones to start the third quarter left them seemingly dead in the water down in New Orleans. In order to turn those tides, the Niners would need a serious power surge of their own, or at least a timely outage elsewhere. Ask and you shall receive. Beyonce’s halftime performance was one that brought the house down, but it also apparently burned the lights out. Shortly after Jones’ return, everything inside the Mercedes Benz Superdome went pitch black. The power went out and it took a 33-minute delay before things finally got back up and running. One of the most bizarre circumstance in, never mind just Super Bowl, sports history allowed the 49ers to regroup and severely alter the direction, and nearly the outcome, of the game. After the outage — or as people on Twitter were referring to it as simply “lights out” — the 49ers went on a 17-0...