Drew Rosenhaus Wrestles Shark On A Boat Trip With Tyreek Hill, Receives Criticism From PETA

NFL super agent Drew Rosenhaus has come under fire from the animal rights organization PETA after uploading a video of himself holding a shark he had hooked on a fishing line.

Tyreek Hill, a Miami wide receiver, watched from a boat as NFL agent Drew Rosenhaus wrestled a shark.

Drew Rosenhaus Wrestles Shark On A Boat Trip With Tyreek Hill, Receives Criticism From PETA

Numerous pro athletes, including Antonio Brown and Rob Gronkowski, have been represented by Rosenhaus and his company, Rosenhaus Sports. Tyreek Hill’s four-year, $120 million deal, which made the Miami Dolphins wide receiver the highest-paid player in that position in NFL history last year, was negotiated by the 56-year-old agent who presently represents Tyreek Hill.

His clients received $37 million in commissions last year and NFL contracts worth billions of dollars.

But as he just revealed on his Twitter account, Rosenhaus actually got rather near to a shark.

His message reads: “Went fishing with @cheetah today and decided to get up close to this Dusky Shark”

Most recently, Rosenhaus has been under fire from PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). He is referred to by the American NGO as a “wannabe macho man.”

“Spending so much time around top athletes must have Drew Rosenhaus feeling like he has something to prove,” PETA said in a statement to TMZ. “Aquatic animals already suffer at the hands of anglers who impale them, yank them out of the water, and gut them or leave them to suffocate, so they don’t need some wannabe macho man yanking on their tails for a few Twitter ‘likes.'”

Rosenhaus has not yet responded to the criticism in public. According to his social media activities, he hasn’t been especially upset by the scandal.

In the footage, the shark doesn’t appear to respond to Rosenhaus; shark expert Dr. Chris Lowe told USA Today that Rosenhaus was extremely fortunate.

“The fact that that shark just kind of slowly ambled towards the boat. Kind of banged into the boat, kind of rolled upside down, those are the behaviors we see from a shark that’s either been caught and exhausted from the fight and then released, and they’re kind of groggy,” Lowe said.

“When you grab a shark by the tail that way, they can literally do a circle, come back around, and that’s how most fishermen are bit.”

 

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