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		<title>Bruce Springsteen Doesn&#8217;t Do Sports Real Well, But Nils Lofgren Does</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave McKenna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm awed by the apathy toward this weekend's Steelers&#8211;Cardinals matchup. What's its Roman numeral, Super Bowl ZZZ?
Nobody around here cares. I got invited to two parties on Sunday. Neither gathering has anything to do with the game.
The halftime attraction, Bruce Springsteen, has gotten a lot more attention than any game-related story line.
At his press conference [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I'm awed by the apathy toward this weekend's Steelers&#8211;Cardinals matchup. What's its Roman numeral, <strong>Super Bowl ZZZ</strong>?</p>
<p>Nobody around here cares. I got invited to two parties on Sunday. Neither gathering has anything to do with the game.</p>
<p>The halftime attraction, <strong>Bruce Springsteen</strong>, has gotten a lot more attention than any game-related story line.</p>
<p>At his press conference yesterday in Tampa, Springsteen admitted he knows nothing about football.</p>
<p>He's never written a great sports tune&#8212;"Glory Days" is Springsteen's jockiest song, about an aging baseball player who once had a good "speedball"; before the tune's 1984 release, "speedball" was what killed <strong>John Belushi</strong>, not a synonym for fastball.</p>
<p><span id="more-15161"></span>But Springsteen's bandmate, <strong>Nils Lofgren</strong>, <a href="http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=14361">wrote the greatest sports tune in the history of sports tunes</a>: "Bullets Fever," which soundtracked the Washington Bullets glorious run to an NBA championship in 1978. You couldn't turn on a radio around here during the playoffs that year without hearing it. And singing along.</p>
<p>No set list for the halftime show has yet been announced. Alas, we know "Bullets Fever" won't be on it.</p>
<p>So listen to <a href="http://www.e-rockworld.com/music/Bullets_Fever_champs.mp3">Lofgren's final version</a>. And, if you're of a certain age and from these parts, sing along.</p>
<p>If I'm watching during intermission of Super Bowl ZZZ, it'll only be to find out if Springsteen brought that <a href="http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/01/18/america-needs-you-bruce-springsteen/">foreign guitar</a> to America's Big Game.</p>
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