He was booed in Big D on draft day, but after he stepped into Sean Lee’s cleats, led the Cowboys in tackles and got them back into the playoffs, fans are calling him “The Wolf Hunter” and howling right along with him
photo of Dan Pompei
DAN POMPEI
FRISCO, TEXAS
JANUARY 4, 2019
It was the morning after the first round of the draft, and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and his son Stephen had just finished an emotional conversation with Jason Witten. The great tight end, a franchise cornerstone for 15 years, was done with football.
As Witten walked away, Jerry and Stephen looked out the windows of their offices at The Star, where the Cowboys work and train. The blades from a helicopter, a white Airbus H145 with a star on the tail, were casting shadows on the practice field as it descended.
Anticipation built around the facility…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Another reason to root for the Seattle Seahawks during Saturday’s wild card game. The article also indicates the strong “conservation ethic” of Idaho hunters: he has yet to kill a cougar to keep up with family members. The “scientific management” used by hunters and agencies is to ‘control’ wildlife populations by removing whatever trophy they want. Need a few bear cubs to complete your living room diorama, just kill a few in the winter den. Spotted kitten? No problem. Got a vaulted ceiling? No problem, quick trip to Africa to help control giraffe populations. Might as well bring home a baboon family, too, to complement the brown shag carpet that has turned green and growing stuff in the man cave.
I gets old reading words like “ethics” and “scientific” in the clearly self-serving context of sport hunting.