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Entergy New Orleans, the utility that provides power to the Mercedes SuperDome in New Orleans, announced today that its technicians had determined the cause of the partial blackout during the Super Bowl last Sunday: an electrical relay the company had installed to prevent blackouts.

The clear favorite was Budweiser's "Brotherhood" spot, which told the story of a horse trainer reunited with a Clydesdale he had raised as a foal. Overall, there were 26,131,270 tweets about Super Bowl ads.

Don't blame Beyonce for blowing the lights out at the Super Bowl. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday that the halftime show was not the cause of the power outage that darkened the Superdome for half an hour during Sunday's broadcast.

The Baltimore Ravens' victory over the San Francisco 49ers has set a record for highest overnight ratings in Super Bowl history, the Nielsen company reported Monday....

Beyonce was just warming up at the Super Bowl: The singer has announced a world tour.

The Baltimore Ravens have defeated the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII. It's the second championship for the Ravens and linebacker Ray Lewis, who is retiring after 17 seasons. After taking a safety on their final possession, Baltimore punted to San Francisco, which was unable to set up a return and suffered its first loss in six appearances in the NFL championship game.

She brought the house down -- and some joked, took out the power. Superstar Beyonce's Super Bowl halftime show dazzled the crowd even before the singer reunited onstage with her hit 1990s R&B group, Destiny's Child.

Power went out at the Superdome early in the third quarter of the Super Bowl on Sunday with the Baltimore Ravens leading the San Francisco 49ers 28-6. The majority of lights failed shortly after Jacoby Jones returned the opening kickoff of the second half for a touchdown. There was 13:22 left in the quarter.
The teams remained on the field.

We got a sneak peek into Brad Pitt's upcoming post-apocalyptic horror movie "World War Z" in a gray-hued, fast-paced trailer that aired shortly before the start of the 2013 Super Bowl.As The Huffington Post noted in an earlier post, the trailer, featuring a long-haired Pitt, "shows off the zombie apocalypse ('We've lost the East Coast') without actually showing off the zombie apocalypse."

The journey to this Super Bowl wound through bounties and replacement refs, eventually bringing the big game back to the Big Easy - with a replacement quarterback, a sibling rivalry and a grand exit for one of the NFL's greatest players, clouded by the obscure healing powers of deer-antler spray....