Here’s Why the Lights Went Out in New Orleans: The Super Bowl Blew a Fuse

No, Ray Lewis did not kill the lights. Bane, the human Goatse, wasn’t to blame. And it wasn’t the Frogman’s dedicated beard dryer, nyuck nyuck. Rather, the explanation that’s been offered as to why the Superdome mysteriously went dark last night, holding America hostage to stretching football players, confused anchors, and an Oreo hashtag, was something far more mundanely vague—an “abnormality” in the electrical system. More »