Blackout Halts NFL Game

Double power crash occurred at Meadowlands
By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 15, 2010 1:22 AM CST
Blackout Halts NFL Game
An eerie darkness descends on a packed Meadowlands stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, yesterday during a game between the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys.   (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

A double power outage at the Meadowlands sports stadium in New Jersey temporarily halted an NFL game yesterday between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys. The snafu plunged the packed stadium into total darkness, and some players hit the ground, apparently fearing an attack, CNN reports. Investigators are probing what caused the twin crash in the third quarter. The game was stopped for some 12 minutes, and the Cowboys went on to beat New York 33-20.
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