Out of Pod Experience

This is my co-worker's theory about the electricity failure during the Super Bowl. The conspiracy is really quite obvious, if you put two and two together. The truth is out there.

First, the background:
The NFL (NFL Enterprises LLC, NFL Productions LLC, NFL Properties, etc.) is a for-profit enterprise. An intensely for-profit enterprise. NFL games are products, and there are ways to maximize profits on marketable products.
-The NFL is interested in attracting television viewers, and keeping them. The more eyeballs watching, the greating the advertising income for everybody.
-The NFL has been changing the game's rules, not for the sake of the sport, but to make NFL games more marketable. For example, the recent rule changes in favor of the offense. More passing, more big plays, more first downs, more touchdowns. So more exciting games, therefore more viewers.
-Let's not forget that they want to add more games to the season next year. More product to sell.

OK, the Super Bowl blackout conspiracy:
-The Ravens rule the first half of the Super Bowl, and at half time the score is Ravens 21 Niners 3 or something. Could be a blowout if they continue that way in the second half. Blowouts aren't good for viewership. When it becomes obvious the losing team can't come back, some %age of the viewers change the channel.
-The Beyonce half-time show goes, no blackout problem.
-The first play of the second half, the Ravens run it back for a touchdown. Scores 28-3 or something. It looks like the momentum's still with them and they're going to blow the Niners out. I.e. boring second half coming up. People will turn off the tube.
-NFL throws the switch and does a partial blackout. Not complete blackout, that could cause a panic and some lawsuits. Just enough blackout to stop gameplay. Viewers are like, "WTH is going on? Brownout in the Super Bowl. I'm watching this."
-NFL waits 35 minutes and turns the lights back on. Luck's with them, Ravens are cooled down and Niners are fired up. Turns into a good game after all. People watch to the end. And best of all, the game is extended by 35 minutes. 35 more minutes of selling commercials. NFL Productions LLC wins the Super Bowl!

Sounds like a plausible conspiracy theory to me. The same way they sabotaged Janet Jackson's wardrobe to malfunction, they had a brownout button ready to push.

And the moon landing was fake.

There was definitely a second shooter on a sound stage where lincoln was assasinated by aliens brought to earth by the illuminati.

BBC had it on live but as there are no adverts on the BBC the commentators had almost 4 hours to talk about about 20 min of actual sport

They have already "nerfed" physical contact! Did you see how many plays were made from those clowns not WRAPPING UP on those tackles!? It was embarrassing

I made an ISH guy laugh ... where is my medal?

Well, the part about the Beyonce show blowing a fuse is what I assumed too. But then why didn't the brownout come at peak power usage during the show? Usually power outages work that way-- overload and sudden shut down. At least that's how our periodic blackouts in NYC work. That one last air conditioner turned on blows the system. But in this case, the brownout came after Beyonce's show successfully ended. First play of the second half, the Ravens run a kick off for a touchdown... and lights go off.



The other thing is the New Orleans Superdome is used all year for Saints games and a lot of other big events. Seems to work fine. Seems like if their were power problems, there'd have been indications before the Super Bowl.



Shadowy corporate figures are at work here. Almight Dollar wins again. All conspiracies are true, unless disproven. Got my tinfoil hat adapted to cover my ears as well as my head.

Actually, the half-time show used power from aux generators they trucked in specifically for the purpose. And if Beyonce's stuff were the culprit, it'd have tripped off during halftime, not later.

I think the beer companies did it, to extend the game and generate another half-billion in beer sales across the nation.

The NFL hasn't been about "pure" sport since players stopped playing offense and defense and that stopped a long time ago. Chuck Bednarik was the last of the era.

All major North American sports, while they can still be fun to watch, aren't about the sport, they're about selling stuff.

Why else do more than HALF the teams in a league make the playoffs? The league office knows that they can sell more crap during the 3-month playoff season than during the entire 6-month regular season (I'm looking at you, NBA and NHL with your sixteen teams in the playoffs).

Wild Card teams should officially be classified as "Playoff Season Extending" teams (This is you, NFL and MLB).

Even sports where it doesn't make sense to have playoffs (golf and auto racing, where each event is a playoff unto itself) have them now.