The Baltimore Ravens led by 22 when the lights went out in the Superdome during Super Bowl XLVII. Ray Lewis is convinced that bizarre occurrence was far from a coincidence
On the Ravens’ “America’s Game” documentary, Lewis hinted without much subtlety that the power outage may have been a ploy to help the 49ers regroup.
“I’m not gonna accuse nobody of nothing — because I don’t know facts,” Lewis said, according to USA Today. “But you’re a zillion-dollar company, and your lights go out? No. No way.
“You cannot tell me somebody wasn’t sitting there and when they say, ‘The Ravens [are] about to blow them out. Man, we better do something.’ … That’s a huge shift in any game, in all seriousness. And as you see how huge it was because it let them right back in the game.”
The outage occurred early in the third quarter, shortly after Jacoby Jones’s 108-yard kickoff return gave Baltimore a 28-6 lead, delaying the game for 34 minutes. San Francisco then scored 17 unanswered points once the contest resumed and eventually pulled within 31-29 in the fourth quarter. The 49ers also had a chance to take a lead in the waning seconds of the game, only to fall five yards shy of the end zone
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