What Kansas University football fans were promised from the new $3.5 million MegaVision video board at Memorial Stadium were instant replays with helmet-cracking sound and eye-pleasing color.
What they got for part of the first quarter of Saturday's game was a blank screen, popping noises and replays with mustard yellow grass and blue-skinned players.
A temporary power outage in the stadium control room caused the problems, said Mike Lickert, KU's video board coordinator.
"We had a power hit," Lickert said. "We went black for a while."
After power was restored, the color for each camera had to be reset, Lickert said.
The video board with its 24-foot-by-32-foot screen and 40,000-watt speaker system was back in action by the second quarter.
Lickert said after the game that engineers were working to find out what the problem was, but he didn't expect it to persist.
"Basically, it was a first-game glitch in the second game," KU assistant athletics director Pat Warren said.
The problems were unexpected after a successful debut Aug. 22 at the Get Ready Rally and the Jayhawks' first home game Sept. 11 against Cal-State Northridge.
-- Kendrick Blackwood's phone message number is 832-7221. His e-mail address is kblackwood@ljworld.com.
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