"When you stop to think about it, Madonna is a lot like the Giants.

She lives in New York. She is constantly turning over her roster (of tunes) to reinvent herself. She pays no attention to the carping of critics, who find her a 7-and-7 sort of singer. She also wears weird costumes with odd padding that spectators generally accept as fitting for her vocation.

So when the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer performs four songs on Sunday during the Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show — thereby producing more minutes of real action than the football game — she really will become little more than an extension of Tom Coughlin's canny playbook."