Dropping the Ball, or Dropping the Lights: Both can be critical mistakes during a sporting event

摘要

When you're attending a game or watching it on television, the last thing you think about is the lights going out. We certainly never thought we'd witness a power outage at the nation's biggest sports event of the year, but while watching the third quarter of Superbowl LXVII on Sunday, February 3, that's exactly what happened. After a large group of HID light banks suddenly went out, fans, officials, crews, and players were left in near darkness for about 34 minutes.