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Wayne Rooney was left unimpressed when he tuned in to the 2012 edition of the Super Bowl

Former Birmingham City manager Wayne Rooney once made his feelings clear about the Super Bowl.

Given Tom Brady’s role as part of the ownership at St. Andrew’s, it would’ve been an awkward conversation for the pair to bring up.

The American won the Super Bowl on seven occasions in his career, including in his final season in 2021 for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

He has the most Super Bowl wins of any NFL player in history, and he has also earned the award of MVP on five occasions.

But Rooney was not impressed when he watched Super Bowl XLVI in 2012, when Brady’s New England Patriots lost 21-17 to the New York Giants.

Wayne Rooney’s Super Bowl criticism

Rooney posted on social media in 2012 that he was not impressed by the spectacle at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indiana.

He compared watching the match on TV to like watching paint dry, criticising the show for the intensity of their advertising and the prominence of the half-time show.

“Trying to watch super bowl final,” wrote Rooney, via his personal X account.

“How do they call this football.

“Like watching paint dry.

“Looking forward to adverts and music.”

Rooney was clearly unimpressed by the 2012 Super Bowl, despite the close contest between the two sides.

Brady was on the losing side, but he also wouldn’t have been impressed by the former England international’s opinion of the major sporting event.

The pair went on to work together at Birmingham over a decade later when the 40-year-old was appointed as manager.

Brady owns 3.3 per cent of the Championship side, and the relationship between him and Rooney was covered as part of the Amazon docu-series involving his ownership of the club.

Wayne Rooney’s difficult Birmingham spell

The 48-year-old criticised Rooney’s work ethic in an episode of the show Built in Birmingham: Brady & the Blues.

"I'm a little worried about our head coach's work ethic," said Brady, via the BBC.

"I mean, I don't know, I don't have great instincts on that."

Rooney was appointed in October 2023, replacing John Eustace despite the team’s promising start to the Championship season.

The Blues were sixth in the table when the change in the dugout was made, but their form nosedived under the former striker.

He oversaw 15 games in charge at St. Andrew’s, with the team winning just twice in that time, and that form led to his dismissal by 2 January 2024.

Birmingham failed to recover their form that season, and they were ultimately relegated to League One.

While the Midlands outfit quickly made their way back to the Championship, it was still a major setback for Brady and majority owner Tom Wagner.

The relationship between Brady and Rooney was unlikely to be too promising based on his past comments regarding the NFL.

And it’s really no surprise that things eventually failed to work out between the pair.