noah | September 29, 2008 10:30 am

As rumored last month, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will provide the halftime entertainment for Super Bowl XLIII next February. Just think: If the Super Bowl producers can score U2 to get in there for Super Bowl XLIV, then they’ll have a six-musical-act rotation–McCartney, the Stones, Prince, Tom Petty, the Boss, and Bono et al–that will definitely appeal to what’s left of the masses! Sure, they’re collectively long in the tooth, but maybe by the time 2020 rolls around the NFL will have moved on to 100% holographic halftimes, thanks to their only other “mainstream music” possibility by then being an Elvis Presto impersonator. [Marketwatch]