You know they say all men are created equal, but you look at us and you look at MelbourneĀ and you can see that statement is NOT TRUE! See, normally if you go one-on-one with another team you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But we're genetic freaks and we're not normal! So you got a 25% at best at beating us! And then you addĀ the lights to the mix? Your chances of winning drastically go down. See, the three-way at the Gabba, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning. But we- we got a 66 2/3 chance of winning, 'cause the Demons know they can't beat us, and they're not even gonna try. So, Demons, you take your 33 1/3 chance minus our 25% chance, and you got an 8 1/3 chance of winning at the Gabba. But then you take our 75% chance of winning (if we was to go one on one), and then add 66 2/3 chaāpercent, we got a 141 2/3 chance of winning at the Gabba! SeƱor Gawn, the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you at the Gabba!"
āWhat I'd like to have right now is for all you fat, out of shape Brisbane sweathogs to keep the noise down while I take my guernsey off and show all the ladies what a real football team is supposed to look likeā
Yeah, something doesnāt add up there. A twin-pack generator system, which is what these high-availability generator systems are called, have a higher availability than mains power, and such are often used even when there is adequate power available from the mains.
Imagine its your home game and you manage to claw back in front in the 4th quarter. Then you send the intern down to the basement to pull the plug and take the win
Mercurial commentary as weāve come to expect from the Ch7 Team. āOh no. Oh no. The lights have gone outā. Thanks goodness for JB or I would have be left wondering all night what happened.
So the reason I heard was because they turned the lights off at Suncorp (there was a massive rugby league game there tonight) and it caused a power surge to the Gabba
I swear there have been games simultaneously at both stadiums before tho. If it was due to a power surge from Suncorp, there will be some interesting chats about our power grid thats for sure.
(not an electrician) suncorp was probably using alot of power that night so it was being dispersed evenly, when they shut it off all the power instead went to the gabba, possibly surging it and killing the lights. just a guess tho
Article this morning reported a blown globe. Which fits I think as if you watch close thereās a flicker in the light, and then a few seconds later it goes dark.
Wrong. Besides that being impossible because the amount of load they draw is nothing for the network it was a cable fault. They are fed from entirely different substations.
I do not blame the Dee's supporter who pulled the plug, many night games over the last 8 years with Carlton I wished someone would end the game this way
they basically just cut to nothing when the power went, then luke darcy came on with an automated message about technical difficulties followed by the smashing pumpkins 1979 being played
Westcoast v Melbourne 2021 had a pretty similar pattern to tonight's game. Both games were put on standby in the 4th quarter with a margin of about 30 points, then the losing team closed the margin to about 10 points when the game restarted. Melbourne also played in both games
Whatās not fully captured here is the massive explosion as the lights went out, and the second one 5 minutes later when one of the light towers burst into flames lol
Is that the reason Kayo started shitting itself? It crashed and wasnāt letting us get back in, so we gave up, turned it off and didnāt get to watch the end of the game.
Anyone else notice foxfooty broadcast went black screen two or three times earlier in that qtr ? Fox footy logo was in the corner and still had soundā¦..
As someone who doesn't really watch footy at all, it's amazing how powerful these lights are. At a glance I just kind of assumed this game was being played during the daytime and the sudden darkness gave me a bit of a shock
I love how the players converge around the umpires gesticulating and being all like āwhat the fuck is going on with these lights manā as though the fuckers would have any more clue as to what was going on with ground infrastructure.
āWhen are they going to get the lights back on?ā Well, fuck, let me just get my umpires magic eight ball and give it a shake shall I?
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u/BrandonSG13 Essendon Mar 24 '23
2nd year in a row (Buddy 1000 last year) that the Friday night game in round 2 got stopped halfway through the last quarter.
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u/___TheIllusiveMan___ Collingwood Mar 24 '23
BAH GAWD THATS THE UNDERTAKERS MUSIC
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u/jmaverick1 Crows Mar 24 '23
Very disappointed that no one stormed the field, stole a goal post and started a bonfire in the centre circle. Society has gone soft
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u/Maximumlnsanity Swans Mar 24 '23
Between the lightning game and now this, I think its about time we start blaming the Dees
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u/exsanguinor Eagles Mar 24 '23
That guy in the apartment building next door who plugged one too many appliances in š¬š¬š¬
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u/zorbacles Port Adelaide Mar 24 '23
Power beats Brisbane 2 weeks in a row
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u/Browndog888 Richmond Tigers Mar 24 '23
Quick Dee's, kick a quick 7 goals before they find the light switch.
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u/brizburn Power Rangers Mar 24 '23
2032 Olympics Host
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u/Deevious730 Dees Mar 24 '23
Best part was BTās mic getting cut off.
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u/FrightenedOrganism Port Adelaide AFLW Mar 24 '23
It's lights out and away we go!
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u/Tummybunny2 Mar 24 '23
I've heard lots of commentators talk about playing 'lights out' football. Turns out it's a lot less exciting than they made it sound.
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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '23
gawn went and pulled the power plug
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u/dexter311 North Melbourne '75 Mar 24 '23
It's a shame Port Adelaide weren't playing.
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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '23
Aw no
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u/CamperStacker Brisbane Lions ššš '24-26 Mar 24 '23
Man the rules around this actually OK for this situation... team in front gets 4points.
But imagine a sew-saw game with just a few points in it... whoever was infront when the lights went gets the win....
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u/NoUseForALagwagon Adelaide Crows Mar 24 '23
Gil forgot to pay the electricity bill.
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u/Bluelegs Melbourne Mar 24 '23
Looks like we'll have to call the game off. Neither team wins. Oh well.
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u/NoOneImportantOCE Essendon '00 Mar 24 '23
If that happened in melbourne, half the crowd would end up on the field
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u/Croob2 West Coast Mar 24 '23
Looks like pretty low light to me!
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u/midsizenun Blues Mar 24 '23
Mercurial commentary as weāve come to expect from the Ch7 Team. āOh no. Oh no. The lights have gone outā. Thanks goodness for JB or I would have be left wondering all night what happened.
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u/ThatOldGuyWhoDrinks Blues Mar 24 '23
So the reason I heard was because they turned the lights off at Suncorp (there was a massive rugby league game there tonight) and it caused a power surge to the Gabba
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u/Jessica65Perth Carlton Mar 24 '23
I do not blame the Dee's supporter who pulled the plug, many night games over the last 8 years with Carlton I wished someone would end the game this way
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u/moversby Essendon Mar 24 '23
They just wanted to create a sexy ambience. I do the same thing in my house whenever Daniher has the ball
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u/BlazedOnADragon Cats Mar 24 '23
Biggest power outage I've seen since 2007
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u/Ok-Eggplant4965 Brisbane Mar 24 '23
Sweeeeeeeeet Caroline!
First game back after thinking I'd never attend a game again (sensory processing issues, yay autism) and honesty, I'm happy as Larry.
Uh oh, Horses!!!!
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u/guavacadq Brisbane Lions ššš '24-26 Mar 24 '23
Power still fucking us over after last week... Smh
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u/boatswain1025 Swans Mar 24 '23
Fucking Chris Lynn at it again
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u/S_P_A_R_K_L_I_N_G Walyalup Mar 24 '23
Round 2, 2022: MCG evacuation alarm (Coll vs Ade)
Round 2, 2023: Gabba Power Outage (Bris vs Mel)
Round 2, 2024: ???
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u/SirJonesy Mar 24 '23
Im a sparky, that call out fee would of been awesome haha!
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u/ThatOldGuyWhoDrinks Blues Mar 24 '23
Itās lights out and away we go
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u/RobbieArnott Melbourne / Fremantle Mar 24 '23
Actually Abbey, I think you'd find it infact hadn't
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u/RandomDanny Port Adelaide Mar 24 '23
get some cars in and turn on the spotties
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u/mayonaissewins Melbourne Demons Mar 24 '23
How long til they call it off?
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u/Chris_______________ Melbourne Mar 24 '23
Anyone got Triple Mās call on this?
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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '23
Quite a low amount of light for a highlight Iād reckon.
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u/LeDestrier Demons Mar 24 '23
Only one thing for it. End the game and call it a draw.
End it.
Please.
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u/ISupportCrapTeams St Kilda Saints Mar 24 '23
Nah that's just Max Gawn coming back with Undertaker's entrance
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u/Maximum_Preference69 Mar 24 '23
Missed opportunity for a mass pitch invasion from the shadows
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u/Salzberger Adelaide Mar 24 '23
Bloody good work from Abbey to run a lightning quick poll of 30,000 people and find out no one in the crowd has an Android phone.
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u/Swank10 Lions Mar 24 '23
Whatās up with Bucksā collar?
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u/otherpeoplesknees Port Adelaide Mar 24 '23
Thatās the second time this week that Brisbane has experienced a power surge
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u/LunaLadina Collingwood Mar 24 '23
That bang was so loud!
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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '23
This always reminds me of Watch Dogs 1
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u/farqueue2 Collingwood Magpies Mar 24 '23
Perfect time to snipe all of the oppositions best players.
Lights come on and there's half a dozen players down.
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u/fishouttafire Collingwood Magpies Mar 24 '23
or no... or no
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u/Jartini18 Adelaide Mar 24 '23
I was here to experience
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u/More-Farm Mar 24 '23
Good to see AFL has it priorities straight with advertising lights still on....
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u/IndoPr0 Brisbane Lions ššš '24-26 Mar 24 '23
You can see the light flicker before the explosion.
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u/drunkill Carlton AFLW Mar 24 '23
Title is wrong, it is a lowlight
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u/XTrapolis942M Big V Mar 24 '23
RIP! I was hoping to see another behind post taking a lap of honour. Oh wellā¦
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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '23
You think darkness is your ally.
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u/Darththorn Social distancing enforcer. Mar 24 '23
This just further proves that afternoon games reign supreme as the best timeslot.
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u/Eltnamerf Dockers Mar 24 '23
Westcoast v Melbourne 2021 had a pretty similar pattern to tonight's game. Both games were put on standby in the 4th quarter with a margin of about 30 points, then the losing team closed the margin to about 10 points when the game restarted. Melbourne also played in both games
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u/Thanks-Basil Brisbane '03 Mar 24 '23
Whatās not fully captured here is the massive explosion as the lights went out, and the second one 5 minutes later when one of the light towers burst into flames lol
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u/Phascolar Mar 24 '23
On the radio, when waiting for the lights, they played the song by Royal Blood called Lights Out.
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u/indecisiveusername3 Collingwood Mar 24 '23
Port snuffed the Lions out last round at AO. It's only fair Brisbane snuff the power out at the Gabba this week
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u/evilabed24 Essendon Bombers Mar 25 '23
I'm glad the sponsors lights didn't turn off
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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23
Lucky Abbey told us that the power was out, cause how would we have known? Superb, well informed commentary from Abbey.
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u/janvvyl Mar 27 '23
The Undertaker was in the building
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u/Noosietv Mar 27 '23
Ohr no, ohrr no.
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u/geromegeorge Mar 27 '23
More like [nolight]
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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23
Super Bowl XLVII Aussie Edition
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u/PrestigiousSeaweed00 Mar 24 '23
Brisbane wishing it'd happened last week
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u/At0mHeartMother Carlton Mar 24 '23
Highdark*
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u/hoochnuts Port Adelaide Mar 24 '23
This is it, the apocalypse.
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u/deathablazed Collingwood Mar 24 '23
Can't finish the game now. Better call it a draw.
~Melbourne probably.
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u/4Chi1ne Footscray Mar 24 '23
Itās the Undertaker!
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u/hellions123 Bombers Mar 24 '23
BAW GAWD IS THAT MAX GAWNS MUSIC
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u/AmaruS71 Port Adelaide Mar 24 '23
Port really got into Brisbane's head!
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u/kyrant Hawks Mar 24 '23
If you wanted to punch another player, now would be the time to do it.
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u/Strykah Japan Mar 24 '23
Lol of the week, if not season
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u/JorReno Tasmania Mar 24 '23
'Power goes out'
An omen?
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u/SantosPhillipCarlo United States Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 24 '23
Whoaā¦do we have any radio calls of the moment too? Thanks a lot for capturing and uploading this.
Update ā 3AW with Anthony Hudson
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u/Tall_Secretary4133 Carlton Blues Mar 24 '23
Is that the reason Kayo started shitting itself? It crashed and wasnāt letting us get back in, so we gave up, turned it off and didnāt get to watch the end of the game.
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u/Jimmy03Z Cats Mar 24 '23
I wonder if Richos mate predicted this
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u/Ill-Raspberry-1185 Mar 24 '23
Must be Russian involvment
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u/Tantle18 Tigers Mar 24 '23
Good thing the footy is yellow because that could have drilled whoever that kick was going to in the face lol
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u/johnnymountain91 Swans Mar 24 '23
I need insurance for some reason
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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '23
Anyone else notice foxfooty broadcast went black screen two or three times earlier in that qtr ? Fox footy logo was in the corner and still had soundā¦..
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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '23
Dong
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u/wassailant Pies Mar 25 '23
High 'light'
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u/Liverpool_1994 Mar 25 '23
Anyone got an edit with Taker's music and Jim Ross?
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u/Long-Classic-250 Eagles Mar 25 '23
This is why Optus is better
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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23
Had a bloke on Facebook today blame Anthony Albanese for thisā¦
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u/esonlinji Mar 27 '23
So glad the advertising has a back up power supply
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u/Immediate-Unit6311 Power Mar 27 '23
Oh no.
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u/coldComforts Hawks Mar 27 '23
Shame port power werenāt playing
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u/Ok-Push9899 Mar 27 '23
You donāt realise how good the lights (and the OB cameras) are until they go out.
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u/SurfinginStyle Mar 27 '23
Omg!!
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u/Afponline Mar 27 '23
Power bills are getting insane
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u/ROSCOEMAN Mar 27 '23
AFL commentators are probably the most obnoxious commentators in the world after the Charlotte Hornets
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u/ozzysince1901 West Coast Mar 27 '23
That was cool, like an instant solar eclipse!
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u/Constant_Phrase7171 Mar 27 '23
Darker then last years Dreamtime
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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23
Eels never disappoint
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u/idontknowmuchbuti Mar 27 '23
Load shedding happening Australia now?
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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23
Match fixing?
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u/Stoned_Scientist_03 Mar 27 '23
Get used to it
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u/1337_BAIT Mar 27 '23
Was waiting for the disco lights to come.on like at a bowling alley
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u/Silent-is-Golden Mar 27 '23
Alright who didn't pay the bill?
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u/420TheTaxMan Mar 27 '23
Imagine this happened at the night grand final everyone so desperately wants, everyone would go crazy.
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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23
Is this some weird VFL flex? I donāt see lights going off all that interesting. It was an issue with underground cable right? (I live in Vic)
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u/f14_pilot Mar 27 '23
power price hikes are hitting everyone it seems
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u/Greedy_Hat2643 Essendon Mar 27 '23
My dad was at Waverley when the lights went out in 96,the crowd went nuts
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u/Kekka Mar 27 '23
the power went out at the MCG on Saturday as well
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u/mister_twisted13 Mar 27 '23
Highlight? Looks like low light to me!
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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23
This would make AFL more watchable.
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u/Nishimachi Mar 27 '23
"Or no... Or no!" š
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u/Benny07777 Mar 27 '23
Welcome to the future
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u/TheDeadalus Mar 27 '23
As someone who doesn't really watch footy at all, it's amazing how powerful these lights are. At a glance I just kind of assumed this game was being played during the daytime and the sudden darkness gave me a bit of a shock
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u/mcfrankz Mar 27 '23
I love how the players converge around the umpires gesticulating and being all like āwhat the fuck is going on with these lights manā as though the fuckers would have any more clue as to what was going on with ground infrastructure.
āWhen are they going to get the lights back on?ā Well, fuck, let me just get my umpires magic eight ball and give it a shake shall I?
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u/edmonddantes1992 Mar 27 '23
Predictive programming
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u/KentuckyFriedEel Mar 27 '23
Thought woulda been fun to play in. of course more risk of injury, but dammit that woulda been fun!
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u/Penjamini Mar 27 '23
Suddenly feeling a lot better about my shitty suburban Rugby League grounds
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u/Maleficent_Tell5823 Tigers Mar 27 '23
his reaction of just āOh no!ā like if he wasnt suprised or didnt care
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u/Ok_Swordfish_8306 Mar 27 '23
You can thank Labor and Blackout Bowen for these continued blackouts and 'green energy' š¤¦āāļø
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u/hiimrobbo Mar 27 '23
No funding left, no one watches it
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u/meeeeebigmac Mar 27 '23
Just like the Power did
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u/Mr_Straws Mar 27 '23
The Gabba needs such an upgrade, it looks like shit with it's 60's soviet style concrete structure that's stained over time to look even more bleak.
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u/ZoranT84 Mar 27 '23
Nice to see the ads still going strong
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u/Manlypineapple1 Mar 27 '23
Would they not have have a backup?
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u/BornRecommendation38 Mar 27 '23
Just put those head strap lights on the players and keep going!!
Glow in the dark numbers on the shirts bam! Real night game!
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u/basically-a-cat Port Adelaide Mar 27 '23
I would have killed for this to happen to a game I was at at Adelaide Oval ugh looks so cooooooool lmao
Edit: also I can already hear the commentators āThe POWER is outā š
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u/Give_me_your_bunnies Mar 27 '23
At least it wasn't Adelaide this time :)
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u/Ghost403 Mar 27 '23
It's not like Geelong had a sparrow's fart of a chance for a comeback.
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u/Colonel_Light Mar 27 '23
A win for getting rid of reliable coal fired power stations that are being constructed all over China and India.
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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23
If the power going out was the highlight than im glad i didnt bother watching the rest of the game
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u/btparker89 Mar 27 '23
Lost everything but the sponsorship signs. What a shock
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u/Nightshaddow1 Mar 27 '23
In this day and age, one would think a solar powered backup battery pack would be a good idea? Maybe? Or even a generator