By Clay LePard
clepard@cbs4qc.com
For many fans, Super Bowl XLVII will be remembered as the blackout bowl.
Shortly into the 3rd quarter, half the lights in the superdome went out, stopping the game for more than a half hour. Officials say the outage happened because the stadium's power system sensed an abnormality and shut down by design.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said that in spite of the outage, everything was under control.
"There was another system they were going to reboot just when the system came up so we did have another alternative," Goodell says.
New Orleans has already expressed interest in hosting the 2018 Super Bowl. An NFL official says the power outage will not affect their chances of hosting another Super Bowl.
And some local Quad Citians were there and say it was a weird sight seeing everything go dark.
"We had no idea what was going on," says Dr. Christopher Whitt. "All of a sudden it got very dark and then the auxiliary emergency lights knocked on. All gameplay stopped, the screens went off and the air conditioning stopped blowing so it ended up being a weird circumstance where we really didn't know how long we were going to have to wait."
Doctor Christopher Whitt was at the game with his mom and says regardless of the outage, being at the game was still an unforgettable experience.
