“This is Steve Tasker, a sideline reporter for Super Bowl 47. If you want to hear about our friend Jim Nantz, it might be his time to work.”
When the Super Bowl XLVII audio between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens suddenly cut in early February 3, 2013, millions of viewing CBS broadcasts may suspect something is wrong.
It was the first voice anyone heard when Tasker was assigned to the 49ers secondary line, which was confirmed. The radio booths, elevators and escalators had no power when they stopped, and there were no 34 minutes for the game.
“Here, half of the power of New Orleans Stadium has been out.”
For some Raven players, the shutdown is suspicious. Jacoby Jones returned for a 108-yard touchdown in the second half, with Baltimore leading 28-6, and the Ravens just fired 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. The Super Bowl is about to become a rout, and then the lights are out? Defender Ray Lewis smelled the rat.
“You can’t tell me that someone isn’t sitting there when they say, ‘The Crow (The Crow) is about to blow them away. Man, we’d better do something.” He was interviewed by the NFL movie “American Game” later that year. said at the time. “It’s a huge change in any game.”
The actual explanation is more ordinary. When Amperage reaches a certain level, newly installed equipment called relays automatically cuts the power to the stadium because the factory settings are too low.
Local power company Entergy vows that it won’t happen when the Super Bowl returns to New Orleans for the first time in 12 years. The company no longer uses equipment responsible for the blackout, electrical current has better layoffs, and since there hasn’t been an incident, the stadium has hosted New Orleans Saints games and concerts for more than a decade.
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“Some people call that weekend the ultimate desktop practice,” Entergy said in a statement.
While the 49ers laughed at Lewis’ conspiracy theory – “We also had the same delays,” offensive tackle Joe Staley said – they undoubtedly benefited from the reset.
They entered the locker room in the bucket at halftime with the goal of fixing everything wrong in the first half and quickly addressing the tactical changes they made. Then they had nowhere to go.
The Super Bowl half ended twice as much as the regular season, and players were unable to access the field due to too much stage equipment. Instead, they were collaborated in the locker room.
The 49ers pointed out that the Ravens scored free throws against defender Bruce Miller for Jones’s kick back to start the third quarter. But there is also a feeling that long half is effective.
“I remember coach (Jim) Harbaugh asked, ‘Did we warm up?’” recalled Mark Uyeyama, the strength coach of 49ers at the time. “And I go, ‘Well- Obviously (Jones) is.'”
Then, the 49ers ran two games – a 29-yard pass in Michael Crabtree and a 3-yard pass run by Frank Gore – by Arthur in Kaepernick ·Jones before Arthur Jones fired. After that match, color commentator Phil Simms was in the middle of the sentence, when the radio remained silent at 7:37 pm local time.
The 49ers trailed 28-6 when the power suddenly went out in the super dance. (Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Image)
attack? Shooter? These thoughts flashed in everyone’s mind. The Sandy Hook Gun took place for a month and a half, and the 49ers met a game in memory of the victims in a New England game.
“The first thing in my mind was an act of terrorism,” said Greg Roman, the then 49-man offensive coordinator. “What’s going on next? First, they cut their strength. What’s now? My whole family is there.”
“Honestly, I think this was a terrorist attack in the beginning,” said Wink Martindale, who was then the Ravens’ inside guard coach. “You just don’t know. Right now, you’re looking for what you know your family is sitting.” Place, and everything else to make sure everyone is OK.”
After a moment, these thoughts disappeared. There was the initial chants in the crowd, but no panic or commotion. Superdome is quiet.
“To the credit, everyone is calm,” Turst said in a telephone interview.
“Why did the clock stop?”
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Everyone’s first priority is to find out what’s going on and how long the game will be delayed, he said. Six years ago during Super Bowl XLI in the rainy season, sideline journalists stopped using wireless microphones because they had disappeared. Tasker comes with a cable attached to a microphone in New Orleans that extends to only the numbers on the field. The league officials he wanted to interview were crowded safely in the midfield and did not want to be interviewed in front of the camera. So he strolls into the midfield and gets as much information as possible and is approached by Jim Harbaugh on his way back to the sideline.
“He wants to know what they told me,” Turst said.
The 49ers have an advantage because they experienced something similar in the year they exploded outside Candlestick Park, causing two delays in the “Monday Night Football” game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Uyeyama said he reminded players how they were waiting outside the field.
“We’re better prepared than we were against Pittsburgh,” Uyeyama said. “We put (this) Roethlisberger in his back all the game. So we walked around and talked to these guys,” he said. Live, Pittsburgh. ”
Initially, the team was told that the race would resume in about 15 minutes and that everyone should stay on the field. They heard the same avoidance later when they checked again – 15 minutes.
“The longer you go, you have to bring back to coaching mode,” Martindale said. “It’s like, ‘Sacred-We have to start stretching.’ We know we’re in trouble. I know the analysis says there’s no motivation, but That’s the Bulls. The lights went out changed the momentum of the game. When the lights went out, we were killing them. Our team was bigger than them, and it did take us a while to relax and start again.”
49ers Safety Donte Whitner said: “Football is a power-based game. And whenever you have such peace, it’s a great opportunity for the team to reorganize and recover Not doing well in terms of the
He said defenders Patrick Willis and Navorro Bowman discussed the strategy. Justin Smith, the defense’s old politician, made sure everyone stayed focused and calm.
“I remember hearing Dashon Goldson vividly continue, ‘No today. Not today. We were so good. Our defense was amazing,” Whitner recalls. “And what he’s meant is, ‘Let’s not make the simple mistake of defeating us.'”
The power outage officially lasted 34 minutes, which seemed to bring huge momentum to the 49ers. (Jamie Squire / Getty Images)
On the offensive end, Roma had only quick access to the locker room during the break. At that time, the 49ers scored only two shots, and he needed to re-format the entire game plan. Roman made a brief conversation with the player before approaching Harbaugh.
Roman said, “I just said, ‘Hey, Jim, I have to figure things out upstairs.”
Before Beyoncé started the show, he returned to the coach’s booth and was happy with his changes.
“Then they went back to the kickoff, like the price of poker changed a lot more,” Roman said. “It’s like, ‘Oh my god. Now we’re stuck in a hole.'”
He made more adjustments after the stadium lost its power. Connecting his radio headsets, defensive coordinator Vic Fangio with the sidelines is actually one of the last things to be online before the game resumes.
So Rome bounced the drama and ideas of receiver coach John Morton. The 49ers will occasionally run the ball to keep Lewis and the Ravens honest. Otherwise, they will attack in the air.
“We’re going to be super aggressive,” Roman said. “We have a lot of talent on the team, it’s only a matter of time.”
He is right. The 49ers played immediately after the game resumed but scored on a 31-yard Kaepernick-to-cabtree pass. They then scored in the next three games, reducing Baltimore’s lead to 31-29, with less than 10 minutes of play. It seems like the power outage creates two different games.
“It’s like track and field competition in that aspect,” Roman said.
But while the Ravens scored again – on Justin Tucker’s 38-yard shot, the 49ers’ offense was deeply trapped by the red area in the final minutes.
San Francisco seemed to score a great touchdown after Gore entered the 33-yard run at the 7-yard line at 2:39. However, this put Hall (NFL) into one of the best short-code runners, and his successor, Lamichael James, was stopped, first of all, a 2-yard gain.
The quarterback goalkeeper could hit a touchdown when Jim Harbaugh called timeout to avoid a game-breaking violation. When the last of the last three free throws of Crabtree in the end zone sailed over the head of the receiver, the Ravens knew they had finally stopped the San Francisco momentum and were eager to win.
“If we were going to lose this game, I would walk away and say, ‘That’s because the power went away, delaying a long delay,'” Martindale said. “We’re just killing them.”
“Unfortunately, it’s not enough. Of course, that’s a strange day in our lives.”
Despite being lonely faces and the voices of Super Bowl radio, Test said he didn’t get much attention after the game. Instead, six days later, his phone started to blow up when the power went on in the cold “Saturday Night Live” (Taran Killam plays Tarkan Tasker).
“That’s when I knew I finally did it,” Turst said with a smile.
(Top photo: Dilip Vishwanat / Getty Images)
