‘I'm like a personal Google Translator for my teammates’ – Amon-Ra St. Brown

Being out here with the guys, my teammates, the guys that I spend a lot of time with each and every day that I, you know, that I love, my coaches, teaching them the culture. They have a bunch of questions for me. I've been answering questions for the past 12 hours. So it's been a lot of fun. But no, I would just say, you know, being half German, my mom being, you know, born and raised in Germany, me and my two brothers and my family spending a lot of time in Germany growing up. It's cool to be back doing what I love the most, which is playing football. At a place that I really love, I would say, I mean, they asked me how to say whatever comes to their mind saying, how do you say this? How do you say this? So I'm just like a personal Google translate to them at this point. So ask me how to say certain things. Ask me what to eat, what's good, what's good food. And other than that, I would say, just small things here and there. You know, I'm kind of teaching them about the culture. It's a little bit different, but For the most part, I think humans have an easy way of adapting, so I think they'll be just fine. It means a lot. I feel like growing the sport globally, I feel like it's my duty, especially here in Germany, to help grow the game because I was a kid like 15 years ago, 20 years ago, where I was visiting Germany and I played football back home in California. And when I got here, it was like, I'm not playing no football, I'm just playing soccer They didn't really have the infrastructure. Football wasn't as big. No one really knew the rules. Like, it was like wasting my time trying to play soccer out here, trying to find a place to play, sorry, football out here, trying to find a place. And so, you know, 20 years later, we're in 2026 and, you know, I got my youth camps, you know, every year in Germany. Kids are excited to go. They understand the rules there. They know the teams. They know the players. I feel like the sport has grown so much that I feel like... I can help it grow even more and having this platform, playing for the Detroit Lions, being in the NFL, playing our first game here in Germany, I feel like it's my duty to help the game grow and I feel like we're headed in a good direction.