EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- When he was broadcasting "Monday Night Football," former Cowboys quarterback Don Meredith used to sing, "Turn Out The Lights, The Party's Over" when a game would be in the bag.Sunday night, half the lights went out briefly at New Meadowlands Stadium early in the third quarter. And then with 11:28 to go in the quarter and Dallas holding a shocking 26-6 lead on the NFC East-leading Giants in Jason Garrett's first game as the interim coach of the reeling defending NFC East champion Cowboys, the vast majority of the lights went out -- that forced a nearly 12-minute delay in play, during which time FOX also lost its game broadcast and switched Giants-Cowboys viewers to the game between San Francisco and St. Louis.
At that point an announcement kept being repeated, "Ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats until given instructions to evaluate by security personnel."
A couple of minutes later, the power returned, but the giant video boards in each corner were all white. Play remained on hold.
Power would return at 6:22 p.m. ET, and the Giants would finish their drive with a touchdown to make the score 26-13 with 8:56 remaining in the third quarter.
"The New Meadowlands Stadium experienced two power outages in the 3rd quarter of tonight's game," read a statement released late in the eventual 33-20 Cowboys victory. "Power was lost when one of the two feeders to the stadium experienced a power interruption. The power source to the stadium was then switched to the second feeder. The appearance of the stadium not being at full power at that time occurred because the halogen lighting had not fully powered up. A second power interruption occurred to the second feeder causing a full outage. Functionality to the original feeder was restored and we are now receiving power though that feeder. We are currently investigating the original cause of the interruption."
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POWER OUTAGE???
This was GOD'S intervention!!!
Helping The Cowboys win this Game!!
GO BEARS!!!
oh please......... it was probably that little toad jerry jones pulling the plug on something.
LOL!!
Your probably right!!
Due to a blown transformer, the New Meadowlands stadium lost power during today's game. Optimus Prime was unavailable for comment.
-- MrJM
Lets hear from all you NY midget fans now.Whats your excuse refs not throw enough calls your way I think you just got your asses handed to you
Amen! How about those pathetic Cowboys? WHEW!
Spoken like a true cowgirls fan!!
at least my team is not 2-7.....cowboys have and always will...suck.
Powergate, Typical New York/ New Jersy stunt. Believe the story? Not unless you believe in Santa Claus.
Cant handle the truth Ruth??
LOL And the power goes out while my Cowboys were driving....AND in a brand new stadium!! Now, just who was that outage supposed to help??? The Giants are getting their butts handed to them on a silver platter and a power outage??? Oh, please!! If this had been Cowboy stadium, there would have been 200 comments on this already lol
GO COWBOYS!!!
new cowboys stadium, 20 billion dollars....pizza's at cowboy stadium 100.00....tickets 200.00......watching jerry jones face when the giants beat the cowboys on the opening day of your new stadium....PRICELESS!!!!....
"until given instructions to evaluate..."
Yeah, I bet they were "evaluating" the situation and glad they didn't have to "evacuate!"
Oh, dayna66,
Stadium jealousy is so ugly...oh wait, that stadium is only 1/2 yours lol
I sure hope our entire team wrote their names on the walls, just as your classless Eli did on ours lol
We may be having a nightmare of a season, but don't EVER count us out lol
I was at the game. Giants beat themselves with turnovers, both were in the red zone and one went back for a pick 6. thats 2 td giants should of had and 1 td the cowboys shouldn't of creating a 21 point swing.. atleast the blackout made the game somewhat enjoyable for me. it was so dark for about 6 to 7 seconds you couldn't see the guy sitting next. players jumped under the benches we laughed all night . made a bad night somewhat tollerable and memorable
I was at the game. Giants beat themselves with turnovers, both were in the red zone and one went back for a pick 6. thats 2 td giants should of had and 1 td the cowboys shouldn't of creating a 21 point swing.. atleast the blackout made the game somewhat enjoyable for me. it was so dark for about 6 to 7 seconds you couldn't see the guy sitting next. players jumped under the benches we laughed all night . made a bad night somewhat tollerable and memorable
cowboys finnally beat the giants.... nice move with the power outage,,,wink wink....lololololololol cocky fans you will still be watching the playoffs and the cowboys will be watching them too on tv...