Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play the halftime show at Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa on Feb. 1, 2009

Report: Springsteen to rock Super Bowl
August 12, 2008
Springsteen at the Super Bowl
By Roger Catlin on August 12, 2008 12:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
If you can believe the one outlet reporting it - The New York Post - then there's a good chance Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play the halftime show at Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa on Feb. 1, 2009.

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YOU don't have to be a good sportswriter to have the best readers. Mike McIntee of Sparkill, N.Y., for example, has a simple but brilliant suggestion:

It doesn't matter what the Giants New York Giants and JetsNew York Jets name their new stadium. It doesn't matter how many tens of millions per year they're paid for naming rights and it doesn't matter if the media obediently refer to the new stadium by its official new name.

All fans, especially those being priced out of ballparks after years and even generations of good times and bad patronage, should refer to the new ballpark as "PSL Stadium," or "Personal Seat License Stadium."

As teams hand loyal customers take-it-or-leave-it, prohibitive and even insane ticket bills, they should expect to suffer some slings and arrows in return. The new stadium, regardless of its official name, should be called "PSL Stadium" in a lasting and nationally-noted protest of a sports world gone money mad, a business that now regularly tells its most devoted benefactors to go to hell.

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Last year the Yanks charged $150 per seat/per game for their second-best seats, a big bump. Those seats this season became $250. Next year a renewal of similar seats will cost $850 per seat/per game. And then several of those can't-miss games will be played on Sunday nights.

And the NFL, also in exchange for TV money (no matter how much cash is extorted for tickets it's never enough), similarly messes with the most attractive games played by New York teams.

Again, it doesn't matter if the Giants/Jets stadium is named Fuji Film Field, Pepsi Park or The Polo by Ralph Lauren Grounds, civil disobedience is in high order. All fans, but especially those disenfranchised after years of patronage - and even the wealthy can no longer suffer the senselessness - should call the new ballpark PSL Stadium.