Something that has been pretty peculiar in sports lately is that the lights in stadiums are not exactly staying on. It’s kind of a big deal, seeing that any sport starting after 4 p.m. needs lighting. These events have hit three of the main four American sports in recent memory. In the NFL, there was a thirty-four-minute delay in this year’s Super Bowl, which seemed to have a dramatic effect on the San Francisco 49ers nearly completing an unheard of comeback over the Baltimore Ravens. Coincidentally, in the first game of the 2013-2014 season the Baltimore Ravens experienced another thirty-four-minute delay against the Denver Broncos. In the NHL just this past Sunday, there was a sixteen-minute lighting delay in the game featuring the Minnesota Wild at the Buffalo Sabres. To top that, even though the game was being played in the afternoon, Game 3 of the ALCS was delayed this Tuesday at Comerica Park due to banks of lights going out. Maybe I am wrong, but the issue seems near rampant. Has there ever been a time in the history of sports that something like this has occurred?
Due to me being a college student and not exactly an electrician, physics major, or have any sort of knowledge on the topic, I will not even attempt to understand how to fix it. My best personal guess is Buffalo Wild Wings is buying someone out at every stadium. They started with the Super Bowl and figured they would work their way down. Not sure how to explain the First Niagara Center as target number three, but they know what they’re doing better than I do. All jokes aside, what is being done to figure out the problems with this electricity? It is costing sports games viewers (I basically quit watching the ALCS game for a few hours due to the delay) and simply disgruntling fans that are at the game. If you are at a game, there is already enough stoppage time and no one wants to wait through a lighting delay.
Turn the switch back on please, Buffalo Wild Wings.
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