Amon-Ra St. Brown was genuinely upset about losing to Colin Kaepernick while doing a test trial for the video game Wild Card Football. Most people tend not to show their competitive sides a few minutes after first meeting someone.
Not St. Brown, the Lions’ Pro Bowl wide receiver who once threw verbal jabs at Dyami Brown in a news conference solely because the Commanders drafted Brown ahead of him in 2021.
Kaepernick had just met St. Brown to promote the new arcade-like video game, and already he found himself on St. Brown’s lengthy list of people he needed to be better than. The series was 1–1 before I interrupted to interview the quarterback and receiver. I took the controller from Kaepernick and quickly learned about St. Brown’s competitive side.