J.J. Watt, Mike Florio engage in Twitter war

NFL star J.J. Watt and Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio engage in a silly argument on social media.

Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt is arguably the most dominant player in the NFL, but his presence on social media can rub people the wrong way. It seems Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio is one of those people.

Florio has long been a critic of Watt’s use of social media, but their latest spat just seemed silly. It all started when Watt posted a picture of himself in a signed Team USA jersey in support of the men’s national soccer team’s Copa America semifinal game on Tuesday evening.

Florio then retweeted the image with a snarky comment.

I guess seeing Watt in the tight-fitting jersey rubbed Florio the wrong way, and the two then engaged back and forth a bit. “You do know how Twitter works, right? If you don’t want to see it, stay off my page. Take your saltiness elsewhere,” Watt tweeted in the direction of Florio’s Pro Football Talk account.

Florio claimed that he saw the picture through the Texans’ official home page before ending the conversation with a simple tweet clearly directed towards Watt.

Florio continued to talk about the Watt subject on “The Dan Patrick Show” on Wednesday.

“There’s more than just what J.J. Watt did last night,” Florio said on Patrick’s show. “He has a habit of doing things to attract attention to himself and then getting frustrated when the things he does to clearly attract attention to himself.”

“I have no problem with someone being a Kardashian but he wants to, in the same breath, say ‘why are you looking at me? Here I am wearing a shirt that is 10-sizes too small with autographs all over it, why is anyone reacting to this even though I have sent this picture out to 2 million people who follow me on Twitter and that’s been retweeted and discussed, please don’t talk about me.'”

Florio may have a bit of a point here, but why is he making such a big deal out of it? Calling Watt a Kardashian is completely unnecessary.

We get it, you don’t like the way that J.J. Watt presents himself. Honestly though, it is time to get over it and move on.

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