Summer's last breath already blew when Oasis held court over MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. On a cool Labor Day Sunday, beneath an ashen night sky painted with smog—courtesy of the apocalyptic refineries that haunt the New Jersey Turnpike—Manchester's greatest musical export shook the home for football of a different kind than these blokes in their fifties are used to. Projected on jumbo vertical screens, brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher towered over the pit like the overlords in Apple's 1984 Super Bowl ad to become New York giants of their own.

For the first time since their disbandment in 2009, an older, wiser, and visibly more professional Oasis played the East Coast metropolitan area for tens of thousands eager to be told brighter days are still ahead. Given the h

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