It was a game Giants fans would like to forget marred by moments that the staff at the New Meadowlands Stadium would also like to forget.  Last night, the Dallas Cowboys under new coach Jason Garrett put a hurting on Tom Coughlin’s New York Giants squad 33-20.  While the game itself was fine, during the games the lights went out in the Meadowlands, plunging the 80,851 fans into complete darkness for a grand total of about 5 seconds.  This 5 seconds of darkness and partial rolling blackouts afterwards caused the Giants/Cowboys game to be delayed for 11 minutes while stadium staff investigated the problem.

The flaw, says the New Jersey Sports and Exhibition Authority, was in a substation feeding the $1.6 billion-dollar stadium that went offline.  That blowout knocked out some of the lights to the stadium; the pitch-black period took place after power shifted between two lines coming into the stadium.  Play continued for a short time with dimmed lighting, but when blackness struck the game was halted for about 7 minutes.  While NFL teams regularly face TV coverage blackouts, actual blackouts are rare.

“We’ll determine what the cause was and initiate any remedies necessary to make sure it doesn’t happen again,” promised New Meadowlands Stadium CEO Mark Lamping.  The New Meadowlands will be hosting the Super Bowl in 2014.

“It was scary, actually,” said Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora.  “I’ve never been in a situation where all the lights were out like that.  You never know what’s going on, especially in this day and age that we live in.”

Image:  New York Daily News

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