It's Bruce Springsteen at the Super Bowl for God's sake -- you were expecting maybe something sparse and understated? The king of big gestures made no bones about playing to the gargantuan crowd of TV viewers (not to mention those actually attending the game) during his performance last night. Springsteen joked about viewers who might be snacking when they should be rocking, and as if to prove the point, the Boss and his E Street Band started out big,  ripping into the good-time crowd-pleaser "10th Avenue Freeze-Out." But still, this was a Super Bowl, not a bona fide Springsteen concert, so he had to forego the usual three-hour build-up and just cut straight to the chase with a short list of some of his repertoire's biggest blockbusters -- "Born to Run," "Glory Days" -- plus the title track from the brand new album Working On A Dream. As is so often the case with "Glory Days," its anthemic nature made it difficult to tell -- especially in this context -- how much of the crowd realized its message is one of poking fun at jock-style nostalgia. But in any case, Springsteen did the best he could to play the whole mini-set as a joyride through the hits, clowning around with the band onstage, and even altering some of his lyrics to cater to the football-crazy crowd, like the switch from a certain other Great American Pastime to the ol' pigskin in "Glory Days," and even chopping pieces from songs in the interest of time. In the end, though, as always, how far you're willing to go with Springsteen depends on how far you've come with him already, but no one can deny that, now that James Brown is no longer with us, he's got to be the hardest working man in show business.