Half-assed halftime

My negative feelings about the Super Bowl halftime show being a forced and contrived presentation were further confirmed in this column by Rick Reilly on the ESPN website. Reilly volunteered to be one of the almost 2000 "fans" who ran out onto the field at halftime to be the visible audience to the performance of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, creating a phony concert atmosphere for the TV viewers at home. It turns out that these volunteer fans couldn't even hear Springsteen's performance because the speakers were on the field perimeter and directed away from them and towards the fans in the stands. They were merely pretending to hear and enjoy the music. I don't understand why this story isn't being picked up by the greater media and exposed for the fraud that it is.