The Who? Post Mortem?

If you know anything about the Super Bowl halftime show, it's that a big name is given big bucks to expose big nipple-pierced breasts...oh sorry, that was just the one year.

Let's try that again, a big name is given big bucks to cram their hit songs and signatures into about 17 minutes. This can mean a band does three songs from start to finish or, in the case of Sunday's event, give snippets of five or six tunes to create a decent and seamless medley.

The Who's Sunday night performance was the latter, resulting in a hit and miss adventure that showed both Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey struggling to keep up with the tempos they created 40 and in some cases 45 years ago.

Highlights included Won't Get Fooled Again and Who Are You?, but other moments such as See Me, Feel Me, Grope Me seemed to tank rather quickly, looking and sounding like it was thrown in for the sake of adding another tune. Thankfully they did seem to sing during the performance, not relying on a backing track and mouthing the lines as some previous entertainers have during the halftime experience.

Nonetheless, it appears that the Super Bowl will have to search far and wide for the next great band for this slot, as Springsteen, Stones, Petty, The Who and McCartney and Prince have all had their 17 minutes of fame. Green Day, Pearl Jam and others are in the second tier but most likely bound to be asked in the coming years.

But for The Who, it was decent, not great or spine-tingling, but decent.