Who censored the Rolling Stones?

Were the Rolling Stones censored at the Super Bowl on Sunday, February 5th, and by whom? That's the question surrounding the band's halftime performance at Ford Field in Detroit. Two potentially embarrassing words were missing from the songs "Start Me Up" and "Rough Justice" - which was odd, considering those unedited tracks get played on the radio every day. Did the NFL and their TV partner ABC choose to remove the offending phrases by quickly cutting off Mick Jagger's microphone at those points? Or did the Stones agree to soften their presentation, as they did in January 1967 on The Ed Sullivan Show, when they adjusted the chorus of "Let's Spend The Night Together" and sang "Let's spend SOME TIME together"? There's been no official word from the band, the league, or the network to explain the situation.

The Rolling Stones also performed "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" at the game, which seemed to go off without a hitch.

The band's next, and presumably unedited, stop is at the Philips Arena in Atlanta on Wednesday (February 8th). That same night, their new album A Bigger Bang is up for Best Rock Album honors at the Grammy Awards, against U2's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, Neil Young's Prairie Wind, In Your Honor by Foo Fighters, and X&Y by Coldplay.
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