The Sports Xchange

Tennessee Titans quarterback Zach Mettenberger has renewed the so-called selfie feud with Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt.

Watt got a lot of attention last season for taking “fake selfies” after each sack in Mettenberger’s first NFL start against the Texans on Oct. 26. Watt registered two sacks of the rookie in the Texans’ 30-16 victory at Tennessee.

Watt thought Mettenberger didn’t show proper respect for the game for tweeting selfies during the week and before the game when he should have been focused on his first start. Mettenberger posted a selfie to Twitter 90 minutes before the game.

Nearly nine months later, the spat has resurfaced after Mettenberger fired back at Watt.

“J.J. had to say it’s a bit high schoolish that I take selfies, and I think he still rags me on Instagram every time he posts a selfie,” Mettenberger said Tuesday in an interview with CampusSports.net. “At the same time, if that’s high schoolish, he got a letterman jacket made — a Texans letterman jacket. That’s pretty high schoolish to me, don’t you say?”

A photo of Watt in his Texans letterman jacket circulated online in October after Watt took shots at Mettenberger’s multiple selfies. The letterman’s jacket was issued to Watt as part of a Texans team function during the 2012 season.

Watt responded Wednesday via Twitter to the latest comments from Mettenberger.

“A lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of a sheep. Time to attack the day,” Watt tweeted.

Mettenberger has been displaced as the Titans’ top quarterback when the team selected Oregon’s Marcus Mariota second overall in this year’s draft.

“I take my job very seriously,” Watt said after the Week 8 game last year. “If I was a rookie quarterback being named the starter for the first time in the league, I feel like I would be a little more focused than that. Maybe he will learn from it, maybe not. We won the game, so that is all that matters.”

In the interview with CampusSports.net, Mettenberger laughed as he offered an explanation for his selfie-taking behavior during the week last year.

“I got set up by a couple of my friends, sent a selfie out, it got leaked to the public,” Mettenberger said. “Then ESPN asked me to send a selfie to them pregame. It just got blown up.”

The Titans visit Houston on Nov. 1 for the first meeting of the teams during the 2015 season.