Amon-Ra St. Brown? “Almond-Ra” St. Brown? How do you even pronounce his name? The Detroit Lions’ own Sun God was featured in the recent Netflix NFL-centric docuseries, “Receiver” and revealed everything about his come-up. He reminisced about his childhood, introduced the world to his girlfriend, but most importantly, described the meaning of his name.

What would become “Episode 4” would be one of the very exciting days for his professional and personal career. The camera fades into the Detroit Lions receiver driving the car on his way to pick up his girlfriend, Brooklyn Amas, a nursing school student. Amon-Ra heard his name pronounced wrong in public, so what did he do? He clears the air on camera!

“See? You Hear? Amon-Ra. That’s how you say it,” said St. Brown, talking to his girlfriend. They’re going to be thinking that. “What is she calling him? Huh. Almond?” said the receiver as he acted confused and the camera jumped to him, telling his story. But before his girlfriend hilariously called him “Almond Rod.”

“The origin of my name comes from the Egyptian Sun God. My dad believes in the power of names. My brother Equanimeous, he got the name from one of his professors and then he went to Egypt. And so, he learned about the history of the Egyptian Sun Gods, or the Egyptian Gods, I should say. And he really loved the name “Amon-Ra.”

So the A’s don’t stretch out people. It’s counterproductive to talk about the phonetics of words over an internet article. Everybody has a different pronunciation of his name in their heads. Watching the Netflix piece might help out in this case. But speaking about his father, his influence went way beyond just naming him.

Amon-Ra St. Brown’s father is Mr. Universe!

That’s true. Not only once, he did it twice somewhere around 1980. Ever since the Amon-Ra was 5, he was involved in heavy workouts way beyond the capabilities of the other kids around him. The credit for that goes to his dad, John Brown, who is a professional bodybuilder.

At the age of 8, Amon-Ra’s father imbibed the dream of reaching the Super Bowl in his son. But it wasn’t easy as a kid growing up. In St. Brown’s own words, his father was strict with all three kids since their childhood.

“I started playing sports around four or five years old,” said St. Brown in Episode 1 and added, “Me and my two brothers. My dad was super strict on us, super tough on us, athletically…”

“He kind of you know, instilled that discipline into me,” added Brown later. His father would be there to watch him play as a kid and do everything in his power to put him in the best place.

There have been some ups and downs in his journey to the NFL. The constant questions in his mind, training tough since a kid, doubting if he was ever going to make it in the league being a 4 round pick. But good things come with patience and so they did. By the end of the season, the Detroit Lions realized that they could not lose a player like Amon-Ra St. Brown and 4-year $120 million extension, putting him in the category of current day elites.