After the Who executed at half-time at Super Bowl XLIV, Townshend mentioned that he is anxious that his tinnitus has grown to these types of a place that he could be compelled to discontinue accomplishing with the band altogether. Referring to that, in July 2011, Townshend wrote at his blog: "My listening to is in fact greater than ever since right after a feed-back scare at the indigO2 in December 2008 I am having excellent treatment of it.