What happens when the lights go out on the biggest stage in sports?

In this episode of QA in a Box, we’re rewinding to SuperBowl 47, aka The Blackout Bowl—when the Superdome went dark for 34 minutes in the middle of the game. The Baltimore Ravens were dominating, the 49ers were on the ropes, and then... BOOM! Half the stadium lost power.

For football fans, it was a shocking moment. But for QA professionals, it was a real-world case study in production failures, redundancy failures, and risk mitigation.

In this episode, we break down:

• The events leading up to the blackout
• Why the stadium’s redundancy plan failed
• What QA lessons we can learn from this unexpected disaster
• How Super Bowl outages compare to real-world software production failures

Just like in QA, production will always find the bug you missed—and SuperBowl 47 proved it on the world’s biggest stage.

So, how do we prepare for the unexpected? Let’s break it down in this week’s episode of QA in a Box!

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