Viewers react to confusing ‘blank screen’ during Super Bowl

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS 

Viewers across the country were baffled as a blank screen took over TVs at the end of a Super Bowl commercial break.

During a Super Bowl commercial break, viewers were treated to a 30-second blank screen. (ANDY LYONS/GETTY IMAGES)

NBC Sports later blamed the outage on an "equipment failure," according to a network spokesperson.

"We had a brief equipment failure that we quickly resolved. No game action or commercial time were missed."

The roughly 10-second blank screen transitioned directly back into live Super Bowl coverage, but it still confused many at the time, causing the the Twitter universe to react to the mistake and speculate on the possibilities behind the error.

I'm voting for the 10-second silent blank screen as best ad so far.

— USAWasAlreadyGreat (@erik_lehtis) February 5, 2018

Hopefully that blank screen during the commercial break was NBC dropping Logan Paul’s Doritos ad. He’s a waste of airtime. #SuperBowl

— 🇺🇸 Waldo Butters 🤬 (@micblank) February 5, 2018

Y'all freeze that live feed?

— Wendy's (@Wendys) February 5, 2018

I wonder if whoever's commercial was meant to play during that blank screen could sue

— jacks (@kriegdei) February 5, 2018

Did anyone else just get an ad for the Sopranos finale

— Drew Magary (@drewmagary) February 5, 2018