Sometime in April 1965, The Who’s Roger Daltrey stood in London’s IBC Studios clutching a microphone and sneering the now-immortal line “I hope I die before I get old.” Anyone who watched the sixtysomething Daltrey’s creaky Super Bowl performance knows that didn’t happen. He and an equally brittle-looking Pete Townshend spent twelve minutes onstage, their pants resting comfortably on their ribcages as they wheezed their way through an underwhelming medley of their hits.

I had a number of problems with this year’s halftime show. First, I’m not sure how Roger and Pete could bill themselves as The Who since half of their original bandmates are wearing headstones as hats. (Bassist John Entwhistle died shortly after, um, taking a stripper for a ride on his Magic Bus, while immortally insane drummer Keith Moon had history’s least-surprising overdose). Next, the songs they played also serve as the opening credits to three versions of CSI, the kind of heavy-handed cross promotion that made me half-expect David Caruso to climb out of Pete Townshend’s distended abdomen.

This week for NBC Sports - Out of Bounds, I try to predict which slowly-expiring band will play the halftime show for the 2011 Super Bowl, while throwing in a few suggestions that probably won’t make the cut.

No, I didn’t mention Robyn Hitchcock.  Or Nick Lowe.  Or Elvis Costel—OH GOD I’VE GOT TO START OVER.