Derek Wolfe, an ex-NFL player, plans to eat a mountain lion that he was enlisted to kill by residents of a Colorado town.
Wolfe, 32, is a former defensive lineman and Super Bowl champion with the Denver Broncos and since retiring has become a sports talk radio house with 104.3 the Fan in Denver.
Colorado is home to part of the Rocky Mountains and with that comes an array of wildlife that can sometimes prove to be a danger to the residents.
One town by Boulder came under threat from a mountain lion that claimed the lives of two dogs and a deer and Wolfe was enlisted to kill it.
The former NFL player appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Monday, telling the host about what he had done and his intent to eat the animal he had killed.
Watch the interview below:"In Colorado since 1990 there’s been 23 human attacks, so that means every other year there’s been a human being attacked by a mountain lion," Wolfe began.
"Just last year, in a town up by Boulder, 15 pet dogs were killed in 30 days. People were calling Parks and Wildlife, being like, ‘Where you at? Why aren’t you coming to help us?’"
"We get up there and the first thing we see is a full-grown mule deer that he had drug across the road, right across the street from someone’s house. We followed those tracks up to a porch. It was up on this woman’s porch, living underneath her porch even."
Wolfe revealed that he spoke to the owner of the home who stated that her cats had been acting strangely, unaware that a "200-pound, 8 ¹/₂-foot mountain lion" was living under the house.
He continued: "The cat itself, when we finally got to it, was at 9,600 feet altitude. You’re sucking air up that high. I was able to make a good shot, a good ethical shot, and harvested the cat, and got him out of there."
The 32-year-old said that Colorado Parks and Wildlife [CPW] ensured that the hunt was done as ethically as possible and that it was all "by the book."
Wolfe decided to keep the carcass for himself, where he revealed to the talk show host: "I got the meat processed. I’m gonna eat that cat."
The ex-NFL star has been left confused at the hate he has received since the incident. He even uploaded an image of himself holding the animal to Instagram, claiming that the CPW had received over 200 calls complaining about him, but he insists it was all legal.
At least he's using every part of the animal I suppose.