Super Bowl delivers surge of excitement for Lodi’s John Callahan

During the great Super Bowl power outage of 2013, Lodi's John Callahan thought, 'This is like deja vu all over again.'

He had been inside Candlestick Park when the lights went out against the Steelers in 2011.

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Super Bowl delivers surge of excitement for Lodi’s John Callahan