IT’S SABU, SABU HAS RETURNED TO THE BANKERS LIFE FIELDHOUSE*

Sadly when the lights come on there’s nobody there with a chair to toss at Kris Humphries’ face and jump kick it, but the power randomly going out during the second quarter of Thursday night’s game between the Indiana Pacers and New Jersey Nets was still pretty funny.

It caused a five minute delay and did about as much damage as the Monday Night Football outage at Candlestick Park back in December, so I think my favorite part is the announcer going “hello? HELLO?” when they go out and imagining that he thought he’d just died, or found himself thrust into a Febreze commercial.

*Alternate joke: Great, now the judge in the town’s got bloodstains on his hands.

[h/t to SportsGrid]

Candlestick Park went blackout dark twice during last night’s Monday Night Football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Pittsburgh Steelers, and depending on your level of inner demons your brain should go to one of two jokes: “pretty funny that a place called ‘candlestick’ would burn out like that” or “did anybody get shot?” The second one isn’t a joke as much as a concern, but don’t worry, you weren’t the only one thinking it.

From the Associated Press:

Two power outages delayed the Niners’ 20-3 Monday night win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, first just before kickoff and again early in the second quarter after the stadium moved to a backup power source.

NFL security chief Jeff Miller said he witnessed a transformer blow up while he was monitoring a gate outside the stadium, where a shooting during the preseason already put a negative light on this venue.

Eventually the lights came back on and stayed that way, and San Fran rolled to a 20-3 victory. Nobody was injured or murdered (that we know of) and nothing had to be postponed, so the game’s legacy lies in a gallery of videos and images depicting sudden darkness, dogs being led around the stadium by policemen and a sad line of cheerladies who just wanted to put on their Santa Claus dresses and shake a pom pom for our enjoyment. Those are the real victims.

Anyway, please enjoy said gallery, and yes, the Santa dresses are in there.

[pics credit to Getty Images, AP Photo and Reuters Images]

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