That Super Bowl 52 black screen happened to everyone’s TV

We came so close to another Super Bowl blackout this year, but luckily everything worked out.

Remember a few years ago, when the lights literally went out at the Super Bowl in New Orleans? That kind of almost happened again this year, except even worse because it directly affected folks watching the game at home.

If your television cut to black after the Patriots second field goal of the game, you weren’t alone. It wasn’t a commercial, it was just a glitch that could have been so much worse than it was.

Think about how much of a disaster it would have been if the NBC trucks cut the feed of the game, for whatever reason. It’s bad enough when it happens on a normal day, but this is absolutely the biggest game of the television calendar. You simply do not screw up the Super Bowl, and NBC came very close.

It actually happened to NBC back in the day. It wasn’t the Super Bowl, but in the midst of the network trying to sell the world on the XFL, a game in Los Angeles went dark because the trucks ran out of gasoline. WIthout it, the equipment ran out of juice and the feed went dark.

Again, that was the XFL and this is the Super Bowl.

It could have been so much worse, but the glitch was fixed in time. THink about the meltdown we all would have had if the screen had remained black. It’s one thing for the lights to go out in the stadium where the Super Bowl is being played. It’s an entirely different thing when the millions of people watching at home find themselves in the dark.