A homecoming of sorts
Amon-Ra St. Brown has waited a long time for this one. On Sunday the Detroit Lions play the New England Patriots at Bayern Munich’s Allianz Arena, and for the Lions’ star receiver it is about as close to a home game abroad as the NFL can offer.
His mother, Miriam, comes from Leverkusen. She spoke mostly German to St. Brown and his two brothers growing up and took them back to Europe every summer to see their grandparents and play soccer. He even suited up for a German national youth side alongside his brother Osiris as a high school sophomore. Since turning pro he has worn German flag decals on his helmet and run football camps in the country.
It was Miriam, fittingly, who broke the news of the Munich trip to him on a FaceTime call the Lions set up back in February.
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The football part
Detroit arrive 6-2 and on a four-game winning streak, with divisional wins over Minnesota and Green Bay in the last three weeks. St. Brown leads the team with 61 catches for 657 yards and five touchdowns. Jahmyr Gibbs has an NFL-high 1,132 yards from scrimmage and 11 scores, and one more touchdown in Munich would tie Terrell Davis’s record of 61 for a player’s first four seasons.
New England are 5-4 and coming off a 45-27 loss to the Packers in which Drake Maye threw three interceptions. The Patriots have already been to Germany once, losing to the Colts in Frankfurt in 2023.
A record year abroad
This is the eighth of a record nine international games in 2026 and the league’s sixth regular-season matchup in Germany since 2022. The Lions are the designated home team, and their first international game since November 2015 lands in the one country where their No. 1 receiver needs no introduction.
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