Those are sun glasses, not goggles.   Look closer at the photo.  The oversized lenses were popular for the era.  

My humble opinion is the photo is referring to the lyrics: “mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun”.  
(We all know that’s where the fun is 😀)

Q2

Oh, Bruce is playing the character in "Blinded" that didn't listen to his mother and wound up blind. 

You can call them whatever you like, they're not like anything Bruce was ever photographed wearing outside of this photo. The photo shoot clearly had a "theme" but it's not the last line of of the last verse of a failed three year old single. As well as the fact that Manfred Mann's version had been released at this point and nobody associated Bruce with the song. 

Sorry, you are way off base.  
In 1976-77 Blinded was not a a failed single. Manfred Man’s cover was a massive hit, reaching no.1 on the US charts and not just EVERY Springsteen fan knew it was his song but just about every popular music listener too knew he wrote it because of the controversy over the misheard ‘cut loose like a douche’ lyrics and Bruce’s numerous public responses to it.  
Unless I am mistaken and you have privileged knowledge of all the different poses and photo sessions Bruce was involved in, you have a mere presumption, as do all of us, what the shot and pose was for, and not defining knowledge.  So now that you are aware that Bruce was wearing fashionable sunglasses and not goggles, (as I presume you admit you were wrong in stating), and and that misconception set off your extreme interpretation of nuclear whatever, you might just find more comfort in a simpler interpretation of what I, for one, find to be a clever subliminal photo hype in a major market that Bruce could count on for support during a time of financial and professional.  Of course, I was already a long time fan back in 1976-77 and lived through it all.  I was also involved in advertising.  But as Wesley said in The Princess Bride, ‘as you wish’ - interpret as you like.  However, you asked a question and received an answer.   Bruce is not posed playing a character who ended up blind, but he does appear to be looking at the sights of the sun, where the fun is.  That would be the hype for the fans - Bruce, the bright shining light, we dare you to also look at the sun and see all the fun.  But hey, whatever, enjoy your nuclear winter fantasy. 🤷

"This was our first single...it went straight to the bottom of the charts."-Bruce's intro to "BBTL" (Houston, TX 1974)

It was a failed single for Bruce. I'm not off base. Your reasoning is based on nothing but "light is bright". When taking facts and reason into consideration, your opinion makes no sense whatsoever.

Bruce (and Columbia)  promoted  another label's #1 single through a line of concert advertisements...using a photo that came from a concept-shoot specifically based on a line from a song but is never mentioned in the ads themselves. 

Sounds possible.

Bruce's authorship of the song is STILL nowhere near common knowledge and he never made "public" statements regarding the "douche" lyric until 2005's "Storytellers". That is a fact. He had started to stop playing the song by 1974, and disassociated himself from the song completely after  the MM release. There is absolutely 0% possibility that "Blinded by the Light" has anything to do with the photo. 

You are obviously correct.  Your proof is indisputable.  Bruce is wearing goggles to protect himself from nuclear radiation in preparation for writing Roulette.  Nowhere in the universe, for 30 years, until 2005 was there ever any mention by Bruce of Manfred Man’s cover and the disputed lyrics.  Wow, and you conclusively proved that as true with just one quote from 2005!!!  And of course, Columbia promoted that ‘other band’s single’.   How stupid of me to even think that during the 1977-78 era, local promotions for a small, regional tour date done by a one hit wonder artist, desperate to raise money for himself and his band, with no new product and a massive lawsuit on his back preventing him from going into a studio and making his record label real bucks, would be done by anyone but Columbia with all their power and glory and fevered backing, and not, gasp, by a local promoter.  Damn, I wasted all my education in advertising and promotion for nothing.  I am in awe of your deductive reasoning.  I seriously would like to know what correspondence school you got your doctorate from 😀.
And thanks for the great 1974 quote as indisputable proof that in 1976-77, no one heard of either version of Blinded or Bruce’s connection to it.   Maybe you can now look for a quote from Bruce in 1972 where he tells an audience that he was surprised that Born To Run sold as well as it did in 1975. I’d love to see that comment entered into Brucebase.   Oh and also that ‘disassociation’ bit.  Can I use that to accurately describe Bruce’s thought process about The Angel, Mary Queen of Arkansas or The Fever?   Please tell me.  
Thanks for the fun chat!   The world is flat, there is no such thing as global warning and all vaccines cause birth defects and cancer.   I hope any readers of this thread have been thoroughly entertained.  If not, I apologize for your losing an irretrievable 10  minutes of your life.  MY next stop - the stratosphere, where you know it’s really hard to hold your breath.  

Boris says to Natasha: “Is worth ignoring Moose and Squirrel and go blind looking into the sights of the sun?”       Bullwinkle, overheating the question, to Rocky:  “Isn’t that where all the fun is?”

📡👋

And we are half way through this World Wrestling  Event.  Going into Round 6 it was back and forth but Q2 pulled out all his moves in Round 7.

Best thread we've had in a long time. Now I suggest:

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I am not that type of boy.