SI: The Who to Play Super Bowl Halftime Show [Update]

**Update: Video of the Who’s performance at the Super Bowl halftime show is posted here and below (via The Audio Perv):

You may as well write “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Presents:” before each year’s Super Bowl halftime show performer announcement, as organizers for the event are allegedly following Tom Petty in ’08 and Bruce Springsteen this year with The Who.

According to a Sports Illustrated source, the two surviving original Who members, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend, will entertain the millions of viewers of Super Bowl XLIV in Miami on Feb. 7 of next year.

**Update: The Who have released a statement regarding SI‘s claims: “Rumours circulating that The Who are going to play at the Superbowl in Miami in February are pure speculation.”

**Update #2: Now the Who are officially set to play halftime.