Beyonce cleared of causing Super Bowl blackout
Beyonce's showstopping concert at the Super Bowl on Sunday (03Feb13) did not cause a blackout in the second half of the match.
The Crazy in Love hitmaker wowed the crowds at half-time with renditions of her greatest hits, as well as a reunion with her Destiny's Child bandmates, in a pyrotechnics-packed performance.
After the spectacle, the Superdome venue in New Orleans, Lousiana
was plunged into darkness as the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco
49ers played the second half.
Some viewers accused Beyonce's set of causing the outage, but
National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell insists she's
not to blame for the blackout.
He says, "There's no indication at all that this was caused by the
half-time show. I know that's out there, that Beyonce's half-time
show had something to do with it. That is not the case from
anything we have at this point."
The game and Beyonce's performance pulled in an estimated 108
million viewers around the globe, making it the third most watched
Super Bowl after last year's (12), when Madonna performed, and
2010's, which featured The Who.