"Daktronics is the No. 1 scoreboard supplier in the NFL, so you feel pretty good about things when you have two technicians here, but they couldn't figure it out.''



The game clocks began malfunctioning late in the first half. The two main clocks near the two videoboards above the end zones continued to run after game officials signaled for time to be stopped. So the final minutes of the first half were played with the main end-zone clocks showing 0:00 and only the clocks on the midfield ribbon videoboards operational.



The referees began the third quarter by announcing over the public address system that they would keep time on the field. None of the clocks in the stadium operated between then and 2:53 remaining in the third quarter.



But the clocks went out again with 2:54 left in the fourth.



"It's not knowing how much time is left," Zimmer said. "One clock was wrong. The two in the end zones were wrong all day. The one across on the 50-yard line was accurate, so we had to go from that one back to the other one. And then they shut that one off for a while. Then they put it back on a while. Then they put the ones in the end zone on for a while. It was musical clocks."



Tribune columnist David Haugh contributed