Steelers vs. 49ers: Twitter Lights Up as Lights Go out at Candlestick

The power went out at Candlestick Park leading to about half an hour of overreaction.

ESPN, the network tasked with covering the Monday Night football game between the Steelers and Niners, overplayed their hand as the stadium stood in darkness.

Even as power was restored, the ESPN painted the power outage as a near tragedy that was only slightly averted. We even had to suffer through discussion on which team benefited from a 30-minute delay.

As overreaction filled Candlestick, we take a look at the reaction from the wonderful world of Twitter. Here the posts that nailed the power crisis on the Twitter head.

Deadspin editor Timothy Burke tweets a question that needed to be asked. I only hope the answer is less than a handful. 

Mike Tunison tweets on the melodrama that seeped out of every flat screen plasma in the nation. 

ESPN's Jemele Hill tweets hilarity. I new that Candlestick was run down, but I didn't know it was that bad. 

Okay, I LOLed at this tweet from Peyton's Head. 

Scott Kramer makes a very good point in this tweet. Tim Tebow should be on every stadium's speed dial. 

And a tweet from the most surly golfer from the world of fiction. It's clear that Ben Roethlisberger is not well liked. 

Here is another Steeler getting some vitriol in tweet form. NFL writer Colin McCollough should have Niners fans looking behind them. 

Then again, maybe we just blame James Harrison instead. 

Actually, this would have been quite awesome. 

Sadly, no. Candlestick is not even this advanced. 

UPDATE: Power Goes Out Again

Yup, the power is off yet again at Candlestick, and here is how Twitter handles the situation. 

Peyton's Head has some tweet thoughts. 

Yup, this tweet may not be far off from the truth. 

This tweet highlights the depressing era Candlestick has now slid into. It's time to go full poverty and start adopting such things. 

Will Leitch tweets and awesome reference to the upcoming Batman movie.

CBS Sports' Will Brinson tweets the conspiracy theory of the night.  

Here is the best tweet of the night, from the man not allowed to play. 

There you have it. A simple matter of a generator blowing has turned the sports world upside down. Either we can't wait to pounce on a natural disaster, or ESPN is always on the look out for things to force feed us with drama. 

It might lie in the middle. All I know is that it's great the lights are on. The nation couldn't stand listening to pundits meander on about the effects of a dark stadium on the world. 

Overreaction, please say hello to Twitter. 

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