A partial blackout hit the Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday night less than two minutes into the third quarter of Super Bowl XLVII. Some of the stadium's lights, television equipment and the teams' electronic gear went dark for at least some of the 34-minute blackout. Other gear survived on backup generators.
What was the blackout like from inside the NFL's control room? CBS, which carried Sunday's big game, released the above report from its chief investigative reporter Armen Keteyian, who was in the room when the blackout struck.
The blackout was a popular subject on Twitter, generating 231,500 tweets per minute as spectators shared photos of the nearly pitch-black stadium and television watchers made fun of the situation.