I think I can get you to the NFL, he told them, but it will be difficult. The destination was unimportant. “She has one son going to Stanford,” says Amon-Ra, who counts the Cardinal, Notre Dame, USC, UCLA and Michigan among his favorites. Amon-Ra St. Brown leads USC players in appeal to Gavin Newsom Matt Zemek 3 days ago. “I call him a man with a purpose,” the coach says. And he made it. “We don’t get a chance to really appreciate it from that perspective, because we’re in it. 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. Because that way, John and Miriam Brown can ensure that everyone else sees what they do, instead of the other way around. “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. Brown attributes his achievements to working backward. Amon-Ra (left) is a five-star recruit with his choice of top college programs; Equanimeous (center) is Notre Dame's top target, and Osiris (right) chose to play at one of their mother's dream schools, Stanford. 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. “Figure out the way to give your kids the answers. That’s the difficult thing. He first picked up a barbell in seventh grade. 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. From left: Osiris St. Brown, John Brown, Equanimeous St. Brown, Miriam Brown and Amon-Ra St. Brown. “We didn’t really know how hard it was going to be. Sometimes she’d seize their phones and only return them after they memorized 10 new English words. These became her sons’ benchmarks. “It’s a beautiful day!” he’d shout. He coaxed John into entering the Mr. Watts competition, in which men of all ages squared off. 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). “Equanimeous is like good soul music. Next year Amon-Ra leaves. Osiris is like good jazz, smooth jazz. Even having one boy off at college taught John to dread the life of an empty nester. “We just gave them the answers,” John says. “I wouldn’t move, because I didn’t want to burn calories,” he says. He also has the most sublime physical gifts, 6’5’’ and 203 pounds with balletic body control. There’s no girlfriends. He’s been taping the boys almost as long as he’s been training them, and with a few clicks of the mouse he can relive everything. His name is John Brown and he was once among the bodybuilding elite, a two-time Mr. Universe and three-time Mr. World with a jheri curl and boulder-like muscles. He’s not in your face. They lift for over an hour like a well-drilled NASCAR pit crew—everything is speed and precision. I’m trying to make you the best in the world. Equanimeous St. Brown is Notre Dame's star receiver. (Yes, the 4.0 thugs routinely have 4.0 GPAs, according to their parents.) Each time, they’re expected to eat until they’re stuffed. John spent the last two decades being omnipresent in their lives. He would take to the stage in a top hat, or a floor-length cape, and at least once bearing a dozen roses. He pioneered the strategy of posing to multiple songs in the same routine—one slow, to appease the traditionalists, and the other faster, to whip the crowd into a frenzy. 1 or No. It’s a Wednesday afternoon in Orange County, Calif., and a middle-aged man in a faded leather weight belt barks orders in a nondescript gym, herding what he calls his “house of 4.0 thugs” through a workout so intense that their biceps twitch. “It’s the only place we go to where we’re all together again,” he says. As the set winds down, the spotters wordlessly slide off a plate apiece to set up their brother for a few cool down reps. He’s upright as soon as the bar touches the resting position. “You should be a bodybuilder,” Caracas told him. It’s just us.”, Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios for Teams at the Center of Week 1's Biggest Plot Twists. 1 pick in the NFL draft. And, as John says, and as the rest of the world is about to learn, “It’s really cool to hang out with them.”. Of course I’m proud of them. They’re all wide receivers, each more highly regarded than the last. “I looked at myself, looked at the magazines [and] decided, ‘O.K., I’m going to go for it,’” he says. Like every parent, he wonders how time slipped by so quickly. That includes the current family business, Velvet Stone, a women’s retail and wholesale clothing company. On the field, the 6'2", 183-pound Osiris excels in short-area quickness, and is fluid in and out of his routes. Each one gives the same answer when he’s asked who has the softest hands or runs the fastest or jumps the highest or is the best all-around: “Me.”. There’s a quiet intensity to his play, something that John says is a big part of why he sees more of himself in Osiris than his other two sons. While his brothers have designs on business degrees he’ll major in computer science. “It’s controlled anger—but smooth,” John says. And siblings who are trilingual and took the SATs in three languages? Amon-Ra is good rap.”, Georgia Quarterback Jake Fromm Is 'No Ordinary True Freshman', John was an art major at Cal State Fullerton who still works as an artist; one work of one of a gladiator with an eyeball for a head stabbing a tiger hangs upstairs. Now, two are gone. He wants to feel O.K. He summons clips from all ages. Brown has approached his entire life as an ongoing series of riddles to solve. That their three boys are already anomalies and may soon become superstars, but they are also still their children. Thus, St. Brown—which John says narrowly edged Von Brown. “I was too hard on them that day,” he muses. It isn’t as though the St. Browns blend their own protein drinks or volunteer to cram foreign language vocabulary into their brains. He’s gradually growing lonely. He started his sons in weight training when Equanimeous was eight, Osiris six and Amon-Ra five. 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].”. By 16 he was imposing enough to attract the attention of George Caracas, a local bodybuilder who mistook Brown for a competitor when he spotted him working out in a park.

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