San Francisco 49ers fans everywhere had a feeling they had not felt in a while: Excitement for a 49ers game on Monday Night Football, which was the first meaningful game in December in a long time.  The excitement of the 49ers not only playing on a national stage but with ten wins, as NFC West champs and against the Steelers built up the game anxiety as kickoff approached.  That anxiety only increased when the lights went out at Candlestick Park reminding the 49ers Faithful and the rest of the NFL, the 49ers have a crappy stadium.  There would be a 20 minute delay until the lights were fully restored.  Waiting out the lights to return I had so many thoughts racing through my mind as to whether or not this was a good or bad thing for the 49ers.

The lights going out had nothing to do with the 49ers winning the game but that did not stop the Steelers from crying foul.  Even with the lights going out again in the second quarter causing a delay of 16 minutes, it did not seem to affect either team.  The City of San Francisco and the electric company running the grid do not know what caused both outages.

While the Steelers and everyone else focus on the reason for the lights going out, the 49ers and fans focus on the team one win away, and a Saints loss, from clinching the second seed in the NFC.  Let’s hand out some Game Gold Nuggets:

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