Who's grabbing the money and running? Not The Who.

For more than 3½ hours Sunday at Joe Robbie Stadium, the veteran British rock band did far more than the minimum required, spiting skeptics who wrote off the band's 25th anniversary tour as a quick way to stockpile a retirement fund.

Singer Roger Daltrey twirled his microphone like a lariat, jogged in place, marched, bellowed and roared The Who's many hits.

Bassist John Entwistle, hair and beard gone completely white, fingers a nonstop blur on his eight-string bass, anchored the bottom with panache.

And guitarist Pete Townshend, despite repeated warnings that his ear damage would severely limit his ability to perform, couldn't resist the urge to pick up his guitar and play, just like yesterday.

He strummed his acoustic guitar for the opening set — a near-complete reading of the band's rock opera Tommy, then strapped on a red Fender Stratocaster to reprise the electric guitar gymnastics that made him famous.

He kangaroo-hopped. He scissorkicked. He jigged. And he spun out dozens of finger-shredding windmill strums that sent cheers through the capacity crowd.

There were a few minuses. The show was a half-hour late getting started, and was well into the Tommy sequence before the band — augmented to 15 for this tour — seemed to loosen up.

The arrangements were a bit Las Vegas-y and slick at times, with five horns, three backup singers, a full bank of keyboards, percussionist, drums and second guitarist supporting the three surviving Who members. Vocal harmonies wavered in places.

But the energy was undeniable. Drummer Simon Phillips kicked things along with a manic drive the band hasn't had since Keith Moon's death in 1978.

As Townshend strummed the ringing opening chords of Pinball Wizard, a five-foot-tall silver balloon appeared in the crowd and bounced from hand to hand.

Daltrey poured on the power for See Me, Feel Me and the teen-age wasteland tale Baba O'Riley, floated sweetly through Behind Blue Eyes and strutted past the ironic "hope I die before I get old" in the band's original theme song, My Generation.

When one can put on a rock-and-roll show like this one, getting old isn't even an issue.