How fitting: 35-minute power outage at the greenest Super Bowl in history

Super Bowl City Leads on Energy Efficient Forefront | Department of Energy

The push to re-invent this destination city contributes to making Sunday’s game the greenest in Super Bowl history.

Jokesters, advertisers pounce on Super Bowl power outage - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Call it the Super Bowl MVP -- the most valuable power outage.

For 35 bewildering minutes Sunday night, the Super Bowl showdown between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers ground to a halt when half of the lights in the New Orleans Superdome went out.