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Super Bowl XLVII pictures
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The Super Bowl letters came in on a barge, and looked over the week's festivities.
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The Superdome at night.
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Nearly every surface, building, and window in New Orleans was taken over for the game.
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At Radio Row inside the Ernest L Morial Convention Center, you couldn't turn around without seeing a famous athlete. (That's Victor Cruz, WR for the New York Giants.)
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CBS's "compound" outside the Superdome housed all of its production for the Super Bowl broadcast.
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One of CBS's trucks was called the ESU (Engineering Set Up), and it controlled all of the incoming and outgoing signals for the game. I remain unconvinced that anyone knows what these wires do.
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Before the game on Sunday, CBS rehearsed with local high school teams, which practiced to play in the style of the Ravens and the 49ers, so the crew could work on its various shots and angles.
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Instant replays are ready for every play in only a few seconds, and it's all controlled by a jog wheel like this one.
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The "Chrome Cow" is used as a switcher, to determine which of CBS's 80-plus cameras are live during the pregame show.
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Inside the CBS production truck, the team pores over every single camera in New Orleans to make sure they're all ready to go.
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Hundreds of people walked around in crazy costumes, asking for $1 or so for a picture.
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The NFL Experience let fans catch and throw balls, run routes, and hit tackling dummies.
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Fans could even pose with the Vince Lombardi trophy, provided they were willing to wait an hour or so in line.
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I watched the Extra Point Kick for about a half-hour, and no one made a kick. I respect kickers much more now.
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Fans started arriving at the Metrodome almost six hours before game time.
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NFL Network, CBS, and others all had pre-grame broadcasts filmed on pop-up stages right next to the field.
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Warren Sapp, newly minted Hall-of-Famer, enjoyed his pregame show.
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Huge HD cameras lined the edges of the Superdome, capturing the game from every conceivable angle — and sometimes repeating angles just to be safe.
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This cameraman was driven up and down the field, shooting the game from the sidelines — he had the best seat in the house.
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"Finger flashlights" were on every seat in the stadium — at various points in the first half the announcer taught the fans how to use them during the "Single Ladies" dance.
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The story of the Brothers Harbaugh was on everyone's lips — you had to pick a favorite son.
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The Ravens enter the field, and run directly at a dozen or so photographers. I picked a safer venue.
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At halftime, workers swarmed like ants — in only about five minutes, the field transformed into a stage.
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Beyonce performed what will definitely go down as one of the best Super Bowl halftime shows ever.
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At the end of her performance, Beyonce basked in the wild applause for about ten seconds before the stage was quickly torn down again.
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For the first time, the Super Bowl was shot in 4K – the footage was only for certain situations, but it could be used for even more next year.
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The lights went out in the Superdome for more than 30 minutes, halting play and shifting the momentum in the 49ers favor.
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When the power went out, a lot of things in the stadium broke. TVs, Wi-Fi — apparently even some of the toilets stopped flushing, though luckily I can't confirm that.
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When Ted Ginn Jr. was tackled on a desperate play for a last-second touchdown, the Ravens and their fans went crazy.
