Former Denver Broncos defensive lineman Derek Wolfe has been going through social media hell in the wake of him killing a 200-pound mountain lion that had been “wreaking havoc” in a rural Colorado neighborhood.
Wolfe talked to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Monday and stated that the a friend told him the lion was living underneath a woman’s porch.
“[The landowner] said, ‘Hey, we have house cats, and the cats are acting weird, and we were wondering why,’” Wolfe said. “Well, it’s because you have a full-grown, 200-pound, 8-and-a-half-foot mountain lion walking across your front yard.”
The former player said he barely made it through the hike he took tracking the animal, and that by the time he found it, he was at 9,600 feet elevation.
“I was beat up bad,” he told Carlson. “I’m all cut up and scraped up. I was in full-body cramps.”
He said he was able to take an ethical shot with his bow and arrow before harvesting the mountain lion. He added that he had Colorado Parks and Wildlife check the animal as required by law, and said it was “completely legal.”
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“I expected that some people would be upset about it because that’s just the way it goes,” Wolfe admitted.
Some took theri anger to the extreme.
“You can’t please everybody. But the amount of hate and death threats, you know, threatening my children, saying that they hope pedophiles come after my kids, and this and that, it’s like, ‘What kind of sicko are you?’”
“It started with an animal activist organization; I’m not going to say the name,” Wolfe continued. “They basically enticed people to attack me on Instagram, and Twitter, added me, and then they were kind of throwing false statements out like, ‘He had no right to do this. This is murder. There’s always another way, a better way. This isn’t conservation.’ Which is all false.”
“These folks don’t want to think logically. They’re making their decisions emotionally.”
The former second-round pick by Denver in the 2012 NFL Draft and spent eight seasons with the Broncos. He played the 2020 season with the Baltimore Ravens before calling it a career.
