Blackout Bowl: Power outage prevention device blamed for power outage

The source of Sunday’s power outage at the Super Bowl has been revealed and it’s like something out of an Alanis song — you know, the one with the 98-year-old guy who died a day after winning the lottery.

Electrical experts at Entergy New Orleans say the 34-minute delay of game was caused by a device that was actually designed to prevent a power outage. (Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?)

“They are designed to keep a problem they sense from becoming something bigger, like a fire or catastrophic event,” Shabab Mehraeen told the Associated Press news service.

Apparently it worked just fine earlier in the month.

The manufacturer of the device disputes the allegations. It says that the device was not operating on the proper settings. 

Sounds like someone neglected to read the manual.