Brown attributes his achievements to working backward. “I looked at myself, looked at the magazines [and] decided, ‘O.K., I’m going to go for it,’” he says. 1 or No. Even having one boy off at college taught John to dread the life of an empty nester. Theories abound as to why they’re so accomplished. He’s gradually growing lonely. He wants to hear what people say when one of the boys scores a touchdown, to reconcile the world’s outsized perception of the boys with his more tempered ones. But to see what other people see? “We don’t get a chance to really appreciate it from that perspective, because we’re in it. “His posing was so unique that everybody around the world wanted to see it,” Ray says, “and that kept his passport full and his bank account fat. When he went out to clubs, he would dance only until a preset time; then, he would plop into the nearest chair, place his hands on his knees and sit still until his friends wanted to leave. When she came to the U.S. from her native Leverkusen, Germany, she barely knew any colleges aside from Stanford and Harvard. Only, the St. Browns are something else entirely, and even more unique. He’s the St. Brown who spins the ball like a top after big catches and makes no bones about his ambition to become the No. Once he grew bigger, his primary challenge became retaining enough weight to stretch across his humongous frame. Amon-Ra St. Brown leads USC players in appeal to Gavin Newsom Matt Zemek 3 days ago. Like every parent, he wonders how time slipped by so quickly. It’s like a magic trick.”. You’ve got to get the right one that’s thick and strong.”. It could be simple genetics, which would be no accident since John readily cops to pursuing his wife, Miriam, for, “selective breeding.” Or it might be their demeanor, ravenously competitive on the field and equally distinguished in the classroom. Quinton Dominguez Ninety minutes after the workout, the boys are back home playing video games. “I was that disciplined.”. © 2020 ABG-SI LLC. “To me, they’re regular parents with three well-rounded young men. Was that the hidden cost of the work they put into raising them? Then there’s John himself, who introduced the boys to weight training when they were as young as kindergarteners, feeds them entree portions of red meat for breakfast and turns his nose up at most high school and college strength coaches because most “don’t know s--- about lifting weights.”. Leading the way is Equanimeous, who had four catches for 80 yards and a touchdown in the Irish’s 49–16 opening win last Saturday over Temple, building on a freshman season in which he led the team in receiving yards (961) and touchdowns (nine). To him, these are the two best weeks of his year, the small sliver of time when the boys are all home and the family is whole again. If they wanted to spend the night at a friend’s house, they had to do extra lessons in both German and French. I’m trying to make you the best in the world. We’re all together. He and Miriam will go to at least one of the boys’ games each weekend, but seeing them on the field is not the same. They simply collaborate as parents to push—sometimes drag—their sons toward their full potential. Their multicultural and academic background is what the St. Browns believe distinguishes them from the Balls—the Chino Hills, Calf.-based basketball family and soon-to-be reality stars. In 1981, Brown fulfilled the destiny set out for him by Caracas, winning the Mr. Universe amatuer title to join the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno and Steve Reeves. “When I first heard about them, I was shocked to hear that. More often, he would breakdance or pop and lock. From the late 1970s through the mid-’80s, Brown was a bodybuilding icon. He also has the most sublime physical gifts, 6’5’’ and 203 pounds with balletic body control. It isn’t as though the St. Browns blend their own protein drinks or volunteer to cram foreign language vocabulary into their brains. We just wanted to do it.”, John tailored their training and diet around his own hard-earned lessons from bodybuilding. (Yes, the 4.0 thugs routinely have 4.0 GPAs, according to their parents.) Whenever the boys are all home, they go four or five times a week to an LA Fitness in a shopping center a short drive from their home in Brea. It began when she enrolled them in Lycee International de Los Angeles, a French academy, for elementary school. “Amon-Ra has no wasted energy in anything he does.”, “People always ask, ‘Who the best is out of all of them?’ I go, ‘It depends on the situation,’” John says. He pored over all of his contemporaries’ measurements, their heights and weights, body structures and fat percentages. He took them everywhere he could when they were babies, from work to the beach to any errand in between. You can win Mr. Universe.”. How much did they miss when grinding day in and day out to lift their children to such lofty heights? Now, two are gone. He calls it “athleticism power training” and it comes with unusual tenets. 2 at receiver, a measure of freedom in his own recruitment. And if the meal is paired with a sugary beverage or a slice of cake for dessert, well, great. The last few years he’s taken to sitting on the opposing team’s sideline during games and offseason competitions. A matriarch who addresses her sons only in German and who once moved with them to Paris for a semester in elementary school? I’m sure I will never see it.”. He just runs by you and you go, How did he do that?”, Amon-Ra, on the other hand, will yell. Ultimately, a bombastic former athlete developed a unique regimen to train his three mixed-race, colorfully named sons, intending that they would dominate their chosen sport. They took their SATs in English, French, and German—and, Rollinson says, “I think you and I would both die for the scores they got [in French].”. “I can love a little woman as well as I can a tall one. John Brown (right, in gray) was determined to give his sons distinctive names and mold them into future NFL stars. The weight room was also a hub for ex-cons, and John eagerly quizzed the biggest ones on how they grew so large during their years in lockup. “I think any kid at that age, obviously, would say, ‘Yeah!

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