Seeking to avoid another embarrassing power failure at Candlestick Park during any upcoming 49ers playoff games, Mayor Ed Lee on Thursday ordered written assurance from PG&E and The City saying it won’t occur again. The two entities appear to have taken joint responsibility for the nationally televised debacle.
The lights went dim twice during the much-anticipated “Monday Night Football” matchup with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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UPDATE: The lights went out again at 6:43 p.m. just as the San Francisco 49ers had kicked off to the Steelers after scoring a field goal. The power outage occurred at the 12:13 mark of the 2nd quarter with the Niners up 6-0.
The nationally televised "Monday Night Football" game had just gone to a commercial break when the majority of the lights in Candlestick Park faded out to black. Backup generators kept the ads and scoreboard lit up.
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It took the playoff-bound 49ers, who have failed in the red zone more often than not lately, a trip to the Arizona desert Dec. 11 to finally get burned.
But it will be on the gridiron’s biggest stage tonight at Candlestick Park against the Pittsburgh Steelers where San Francisco will, once again, try to right its red-zone wrongs.
Last week’s 21-19 downer against the division-rival Cardinals marked more than San Francisco’s third defeat this season.
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Moving to the Bay Area from Pennsylvania last December, Darpan Saini jumped at the opportunity to play organized cricket.
In Pittsburgh, where Saini lived for three years working toward his Masters degree at Carnegie Mellon University, cricket season was limited to the summer.
As a Foster City resident — a short commute to Redwood Shores where Saini is a software engineer at Oracle — he is delighted with the climate that is reminiscent of home: Bangalore, India.
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This is not the kind of case you normally see in court. Authorities say a woman believed to be drunk showed up at a Pittsburgh courthouse recently slurring her speech and carrying an open case of Big City Ice beer. After a few minutes of questioning, deputies said they realized the woman was highly intoxicated — but she offered them a beer as long as she could keep the rest.
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Four teenage employees of a fast-food restaurant near Pittsburgh staged a phony burglary and stole $1,300 after learning one of them was likely to be fired. They stole the money from a safe and tried to make it look like a burglary by making a regular night deposit, ransacking the restaurant and then throwing a large stone through a window. Police said the suspects confessed when confronted and have been charged with conspiracy, theft and criminal mischief.
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Federal drug charges against a Pittsburgh woman are close to being thrown out because local police mistakenly burned the evidence — more than 14,000 stamp bags of heroin. Pittsburgh law enforcement wrongly thought the case had been closed, while in fact it was taken over by federal prosecutors. The defense for Tiona Jones, 31, hinges on whether or not the search of her purse during a traffic stop was legal.
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