a touchdown pass. in the second quarter, baltimore scored two more touchdowns to make it look a blowout. they went to halftime with a 21-6 lead over san francisco. in the third, ravens jacoby jones set a record with 108-yard kickoff return. and then, the power went out in the superdome. it took 34 minutes before the lights were back on and play was restarted. then, momentum shifted quickly as san francisco scored two touchdowns in less than 2 1/2 minutes. in the fourth quarter, niners quarterback colin kaepernick rolled left and kept going for the touchdown. san francisco had the last you shot at the end zone, but there was contact between michael crabtree and ravens jeremy smith. the game ended on a ravens kickoff. 49ers returned as time-out.
the announcers were left with a lot of time to talk. people of gotham. they don t get back on the field for 34 excruciating minutes. twitter blew up. nobody knows still what exactly happened. they say it was an abnormality in the electrical system. finally after the players stretched and talked, lights come back. 49ers come alive, they score 17 unanswered points in the third quarter to make the game close. in the fourth quarter, they re down by eight. kaepernick gets flushed out of the pocket and then runs, as he did all night, makes it into the end zone. brings it down to 31-29. they don t get the two-point conversion. this is the big play of the game. in the fourth quarter. if you look at it, it looks hike he throws the fade to michael crabtree. it looked like a penalty. certainly the coach thought it was. a lot of contact. announcers, i think, had it right. you get a play like this, you ve got to make the catch. it s the super bowl, it s the end of the game. there was contact on
i found interesting and kind of baffling was, you know, san fran with the first and goal at the 70 yard line with 2 or 3 minutes left in the game. they ve got this the big turning point in san francisco s san was harbaugh s decision to switch the quarterbacks. smith sort of a conventional quarterback for ckaepernick and then that quarterback. five yards. second and goal. three shots at the end zone and run alex smith passes. three passes. well covered. maybe michael crabtree or holding there in the lals play. we ll never know. the flag that never was. we had the same conversation. it was wow. a decision to switch quarterbacks. krystal texting me all night last night. i can t believe this defense they re running. you re right. they should have put more running. on the last bit. but overall, i have new respect for joe flacco.
of democrats have always been for it. the white house wasn t publicly pushing for this. they d be fighting against their own basin stead of focusing on the issues where they want to focus. you saw even during the process of coming up with these proposals, vice president biden very clearly in public statements drawing this up didn t mention the assault weapons ban but other parts of it. early on, the white house setting the stage for this bifurcation. you can push for the assault weapons ban and signal to really the moderate democrats in the senate who don t want that vote that it s okay for them not to go along with the assault weapons ban but don t give up on the rest of the package. let s get something done. i think that s the situation we have right now in the senate. all right. michael, thank you very much. thanks a lot. much more ahead. let s take a moment to acknowledge the death of an american hero, someone that made a deep impression on the staff of this show. chris kyle
i it was a long, long night. i didn t watch the whole thing. every last bit. i just wanted to get the half-time show. that was something. that was great too. this is what happened when a football game meets the twilight zone. first, the football. ravens nearly blowing a 22-point lead. they were this close to blowing it. somehow they held off the san francisco 49ers who had four shots to win it at the end of the game. the final score was 34-31. that was the football side of it. you could say the whole thing was overshadowed. the lights went out. a 34-minute power outage put the whole super bowl on hold. carlos diaz was at the game. he is back in new orleans where the power is back o. what on earth went on? that was one of the most bizarre things we have seen. we went from blowout, blackout to shoot-out in just a matter of a few minutes in new orleans. it s a situation where everything post 9/11 happens in a major city like superdome you have to start asking que