SAN FRANCISCO (AP) â" Candlestick Park went dim twice in a San Francisco 49ers' much-anticipated lapse to primary time.
Two energy outages behind a Niners' Monday night persion opposite a Pittsburgh Steelers, initial usually before kickoff and again early in a second entertain after a stadium changed to a backup energy source.
NFL confidence arch Jeff Miller pronounced he witnessed a transformer blow adult while he was monitoring a embankment outward a stadium, where a sharpened during a preseason already put a disastrous light on this venue.
The initial outage pushed behind a opening kickoff by 20 minutes. Thousands of flashbulbs went off in a midst of a blackness, with a sellout throng of 69,732 sitting in dark â" including all those Terrible Towel-waving Steelers fans who transport a nation with their team.
The second check came early in a second entertain and halted a persion again between 10-3 playoff-bound teams for about 15 minutes. Miller and other NFL officials collected in a press box to consider a situation, remaining in consistent hit with a commissioner's office.
Miller pronounced he remained assured a persion could be finished even regulating an choice energy source given a problem seemed to be outward a stadium.
"They told us that we were on a second feed, so if that feed would have been somehow interrupted afterwards we substantially wouldn't have been means to get a lights back," Miller told The Associated Press.
"That's given we're handling in (the stadium) now. That's given we're playing, given we consider that we'll be means to continue. We wish to be means to continue. There's substantially a problem outward a stadium."
This is a 49ers' usually Monday Night persion this deteriorate and their final regular-season home persion during Candlestick Park. The NFL positively will wish to make certain there are no problems when San Francisco hosts a home playoff persion subsequent month as NFC West champions.
The energy via a track went off about 25 mins before a scheduled kickoff of 5:40 p.m. internal time. The open residence complement stopped operative along with all else, so group officials speedy media to use Twitter to strech fans and inspire them to lay parsimonious and not panic. An puncture light fast came on in a distant dilemma of a stadium.
"What happened was a lights in a lots went out," Miller said. "And about dual mins later, a transformer blew and afterwards we mislaid everything, other than a puncture lights inside."
A 49ers orator pronounced city engineers worked quickly to switch a energy to backup generators.
Joe Molica, a orator for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. pronounced a energy association was still questioning a means of a outage.
"So distant we don't know what a means is," Molica said. "We do know that Candlestick was a usually patron influenced by this outage."
Molica pronounced PG&E and park authorities had done all a slight checks progressing in a day and that all systems seemed to be in order.
He pronounced was behind adult on full energy and mixed crews went to Candlestick to investigate.
Monday noted San Francisco's biggest home persion given their final outing to a playoffs in Jan 2003, when a Niners came from behind to jolt a New York Giants 39-38 in one of a biggest comebacks in NFL history.
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AP Sports Writer Antonio Gonzalez and AP Writer Beth Brown contributed.
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