The Super Bowl may have been broadcast on CBS, but it was NBC that took full advantage when New Orleans' Louisiana Superdome suddenly lost power.
Less than two minutes had elapsed in the third quarter of the Baltimore Ravens-San Francisco 49ers game before parts of the stadium unexpectedly lost power. Soon thereafter, viewers turned to Twitter to voice their conspiracy theories on what had just happened. One of them concerned NBC's high-profile post-apocalyptic drama Revolution, set in a world without electricity.
It was perfect timing.
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Ten minutes later another tweet was sent out with a link to an image of a necklace crucial to unlocking the Revolution mystery: "If only the stadium had one of these... #RevolutionMarch25." The same image was also pushed through on Revolution's Facebook page.
Television heavyweights had some fun taking swipes at what would end up being a 34-minute delay of the game, which the Ravens ultimately won after the 49ers staged a comeback post-blackout.
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