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The 34-minute delay created two distinct halves of football and, according to the Ravens, nearly cost them a Super Bowl title. It was as if the blackout had created two distinct games. Last Updated 9:16 a.m. ET. NEW ORLEANS Super Bowl XLVII's dramatic second half was made more so by a power blackout, which halted play and left millions of TV viewers in the dark.. The biggest pro Super Bowl XLVII was a thriller between the 49ers and Ravens, but it will forever be remembered for the power outage inside the Superdome. The infamous Super Bowl blackout in New Orleans almost changed the outcome of the game The Superdome in New Orleans was rocking after the Baltimore Ravens had just scored the longest touchdown in It’s always the blackout.” Before kickoff, Super Bowl XLVII was billed as the Harbaugh Bowl, a sibling showdown between brothers Jim and John Harbaugh, head coaches of the 49ers and Ravens The outage, which lasted more than thirty minutes, makes Super Bowl 47 one of the most memorable Super Bowls in history. The game featured 34 minutes of darkness and a stunning second-half comeback. Super Bowl 59 will be the first held in the city since 2013, when a power outage delayed the game for 34 minutes – the first and only time the nation's biggest sporting event has been delayed by And at that moment, it was clear that the legacy of that Super Bowl wouldn't be the final game of Ray Lewis' Hall of Fame career, Colin Kaepernick's last moment on the NFL's biggest stage, the Usually a more regular Super Bowl host city, New Orleans has had to wait 12 years to put the 'Blackout Bowl' right - and the host committee and local power company are taking no chances. Ray Lewis still searching for cause of SB XLVII blackout (3:56) Ray Lewis sits down to discuss the power outage during Super Bowl XLVII, the last game of his NFL career. The blackout, it turned out, became more of a footnote than a spark to what would have been the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history. "It just took us longer to lose," moaned San Francisco Of course, we’re talking about the infamous 34-minute blackout during the 34–31 Ravens win over the 49ers at Super Bowl XLVII. On Feb. 9, the Super Bowl will return to the former Mercedes-Benz Superdome for the first time since the power outage heard around the world. The Baltimore Ravens grabbed all the momentum to start the second half after a Jacoby Jones touchdown, but then the lights went out. Get a sneak peek at what The game marked the first Super Bowl in which both of the teams had appeared, but had not yet lost a previous Super Bowl; the 49ers came into the game having won all five of their previous Super Bowl appearances, while the Ravens had won in their lone previous Super Bowl appearance in Super Bowl XXXV against the New York Giants. The last Super Bowl played in New Orleans has gone down as the ‘Blackout Bowl’, due to a 34-minute power outage in the Superdome shortly after Beyonce’s half-time show. Sandwiching the powercut was another hugely entertaining game as brothers John and Jim Harbaugh faced off as the Ravens and 49ers head coaches. The irony was that Super Bowl XLVII forever will be remembered for a period of darkness. Minutes after Jones gave the Ravens a 28-6 lead on the second-half kickoff, the lights went out in the Amid all the million-dollar commercials that ran during the Super Bowl on Sunday, Oreo pulled off a marketing triumph by capitalizing on the game's blackout on Twitter. In honor of Super Tuesday the NFL presents Super Bowl XLVII, The Harbaugh Bowl!00:00 - Start9:54 Flacco 13-yard TD Pass to A. Boldin32:12 L. James Fumble39:3 Turn out the lights. The lights went out the last time the Super Bowl was held in New Orleans. On Feb. 3, 2013, Super Bowl XLVII was delayed for 34 minutes early in the second half after there was The Super Bowl is expected to use about 12 megawatts of power, which is the same as a Saints game or any of Taylor Swift's shows, Hudson said. It's enough to power 7,000 homes.
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