For a guy who kept saying he knows nothing about football, Bruce Springsteen had a pretty good Super Bowl: If his halftime set wasn’t as spectacular as Santonio Holmes’s tiptoe catches to win the game for the Steelers, at least Springsteen didn’t leave the field in shame, like Dominique Cromartie-Rodgers of the Cardinals, whose game jersey should have just read PWNED.
 
The song selection wasn’t exactly stunning: Did you think Springsteen was going to devote his twelve-minute slot to “Wild Billy’s Circus Story”? “Born To Run” was inevitable, “Glory Days” (with football-revised lyrics) was obvious, and he had to play something from his new album, so better “Working On A Dream” than “Queen Of The Supermarket” or, God forbid, “Outlaw Pete.” That leaves “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” as the only minor surprise – and given the song’s lyrical focus on saxophonist Clarence Clemons, and Clemons’ stature as a former semi-pro football player (as well as the lone black member of the E Street Band), even that pick makes sense to Monday-morning quarterbacks.
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