NEW ORLEANS – A power outage put the nation’s biggest sporting event on hold for more than a half-hour Sunday.

What followed was an otherwise electric, back-and-forth second half that ended with Joe Flacco and the Baltimore Ravens as NFL champions thanks to a 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers.

Flacco, voted the MVP, threw three first-half touchdown passes to cap an 11-TD, zero-interception postseason. Jacoby Jones returned the second-half kickoff 108 yards, a Super Bowl record, to give Baltimore a 28-6 lead.