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If you know me, then you know that I totally agree with Ray on this one. It's just the NFL being the NFL... lots of smoke and mirrors behind the scenes and a totally awesome marketing-media machine to smooth everything over.
Ray Lewis says Super Bowl blackout was no accident
By Kevin Patra
Around the League writer
Published: Sept. 1, 2013 at 09:56 a.m.
Updated: Sept. 1, 2013 at 10:14 a.m.
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Ray Lewis will go down as one of the greatest linebackers in NFL history and almost certainly a first-ballot Hall of Famer. It turns out he also is a noted conspiracy theorist.
During an interview for NFL Films' "America's Game" series on the Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl XLVII victory (airing Monday at 9 p.m ET on NFL Network) Lewis let on that he didn't think the infamous power outage was all an accident.
"I'm not gonna accuse nobody of nothing - because I don't know facts," Lewis said according to USA Today's Nate Davis. "But you're a zillion-dollar company, and your lights go out? No. (Laughs) No way.
"Now listen, if you grew up like I grew up - and you grew up in a household like I grew up - then sometimes your lights might go out, because times get hard. I understand that. But you cannot tell me somebody wasn't sitting there and when they say, 'The Ravens (are) about to blow them out. Man, we better do something.' ... That's a huge shift in any game, in all seriousness. And as you see how huge it was because it let them right back in the game."
Following the outage the San Francisco 49ers nearly erased a 28-6 deficit, coming up just short on the final drive.
It's easier for Lewis to prod at the power outage while wearing his second championship ring, but there is no question the more than 30-minute delay -- ultimately determined to be a faulty electrical delay device -- derailed the Ravens' momentum.
In a show of humor (we assume) 49ers CEO Jed York responded on Twitter to a story about Lewis' theory:
"There is no conspiracy," York wrote. "I pulled the plug."
Catch "America's Game" Monday at 9 p.m. ET only on NFL Network