The National Football League captured the attention of the vast majority of sports fans in the United States on the night of February 5, 2012.
Millions tuned in to watch Eli Manning and the NFC Champion New York Giants take on Tom Brady and the AFC Champion Patriots in the Super Bowl.
However, not all those that watched the game were impressed.
A World Football star of his own, Wayne Rooney of American owned English Premier League club Manchester United, had this to say via twitter during the game:
“Trying to watch super bowl final. How do they call this football. Like watching paint dry. Looking forward to adverts and music.”
Rooney appeared to echo the sentiments of many that tune in for anything but the game as even in my own opinion it was a bit of a snooze in the first half and the third quarter.
In many ways it goes back to the age old discussion of whether or not American Football or World Football should get to enjoy the use of the term football.
The more in depth irony is that Rooney is part of a club owned by the Glazer family whom as well as Manchester United Football Club they are also the owners of the National Football League's Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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