HBO Real Sports on St Brown kids

[jadaway]

This weeks Real Sports has a feature on the 3 St Brown boys. Very interesting. Couple highlights...

1. Dude married hot German woman for her genetics to make super kids. Had plan for kids long before they were born.

2. All 3 are big time WR. Plays at ND, Stanford, and last just signed w SC.

3. The naming of boys was different. Each has like 4-5 names including changing last name from Brown to St. Brown because it looks better on jersey. Each had an Egyptian Pharoh name ie Amon Ra. Mom def didn’t like the names.

4. Mom in charge of education and dad in charge of athletics. They speak German and French fluently and straight As.

5. Dad was Mr Universe multi times. Big time body builder.

6. Dad marketing protein shake. Put pic of Moms dad on package cause he’s white and looks smart. Funny.

Several other interesting nuggets. I wanted to dislike Dad like the Ball guy w the basketball kids. However it really looks like the parents did a helluva job raising kids. Made me feel like real slacker parent.

 

[SnowNole]

All three kids seem well grounded. All were both physically and academically gifted and speak multiple languages. Story seemed kind of creepy at first, made me think of Marinovich, but the parents seems to have them going in the right direction. Youngest son is a 5 star receiver, ranked third in the nation overall who is a 2018 commit to USC, middle brother was a 4 star recruit and is a redshirt freshman at Stanford and oldest brother was a 4 star recruit and is a junior at Notre Dame and led ND in receiving last year.

Didn’t like how the dad intends to profit on his little mini football factory, but he didn’t seem anything like the jerk LaVal Ball is and you could tell he really loved his kids. Hope this isn’t another one of those disaster stories in the making.

 

[JohnnieHolmesNole]

You mean you guys did not do this?? I thought every male analyzed his woman’s value as a breeding partner before impregnating her. I mean, what if you ended up with some disgusting feature in your kids like curly hair or ugly feet? And of course Mom is always “in charge of education”.....ain’t nobody got time for that.

 

[nolesrgood]

i thought it was an awesome story as well..boys seemed happy well adjusted..loving parents, pretty cool..time will tell the story though..I was a fan of the whole family by the end of the program...mom still hot!

 

[NOLEINDIXIE]

i thought it was an awesome story as well..boys seemed happy well adjusted..loving parents, pretty cool..time will tell the story though..I was a fan of the whole family by the end of the program...mom still hot!

Where did you watch this, what network?

 

[NOLEpalm_Radio]

Where did you watch this, what network?

Bruh..........the title of the thread..........

 

[SnowNole]

Where did you watch this, what network?

HBO. Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

 

[NOLEINDIXIE]

Bruh..........the title of the thread..........

Damn it’s early

 

[mtownnole]

Man look I watched this a couple days ago it is pretty amazing. OP broke it down very well. The kids all speak fluid German because that's what Mom always speaks to them since birth. They moved to Paris for 6 months so they also speak French. He did change the last names because they look better but he also changed the last names because he didn't want them to have their slave owners last names. These are his words. Don't cringe or say I'm bringing up race but black people in America have their ancestors; slave owners last name. IMHO that's an awesome idea, I love this dude and these kids. They are legit and you will like their pop's unlike Lavar, trust me

 

[cfbfan23]

Put pic of Moms dad on package .

That must have hurt. It shows he's a devoted husband, but a little weird (but when you consider the wife is German....maybe not so weird). Definitely risque for tv.

 

[SnowNole]

Man look I watched this a couple days ago it is pretty amazing. OP broke it down very well. The kids all speak fluid German because that's what Mom always speaks to them since birth. They moved to Paris for 6 months so they also speak French. He did change the last names because they look better but he also changed the last names because he didn't want them to have their slave owners last names. These are his words. Don't cringe or say I'm bringing up race but black people in America have their ancestors; slave owners last name. IMHO that's an awesome idea, I love this dude and these kids. They are legit and you will like their pop's unlike Lavar, trust me

I thought it was pretty amazing that the dad freely admitted that he put a picture of his father-in-law, a white guy, on the back of his protein shake packages despite the man having nothing to do with developing or selling the shakes. He felt like putting his own picture there, despite being a decorated body builder, would hurt sales compared to having an old white guy on the package.

 

[DFSNOLE]

 

[nynole1]

Interesting story. One thing that stuck out to me was when they asked the mom about the boys names. She said she cried, but that the dad wouldn't let her have any input at all. Names are one of the dumbest things I've heard in a long time. Seems a really great guy. Looks like the kids turned out well though, so who knows.

 

[canoli]

That must have hurt. It shows he's a devoted husband, but a little weird (but when you consider the wife is German....maybe not so weird). Definitely risque for tv.

Rotflmao. Post of the year. Thank you for it bro.

 

[GbrNole]

three kids each being at a hated rival school. excellent script!

 

[DanC78]

Didn’t find anything weird about this at all.

He is just being very direct about it. Seems like a great dad.

 

[Nole Lou]

Don't know anything about the story other than what I've read here...but while unconventional, it seems pretty positive. Seems pretty clear that they aren't being set up for an athletic career or bust, like Marinovich was, or it appears the younger Ball kids are. I mean, set aside the athletic potential...as a parent of three kids myself, the idea that you could put all three on a full ride to Notre Dame, Stanford and USC...I know a lot of parents who would do almost anything in their power for that kind of outcome...even if they never get a dime to play professional sports.

The language training as well indicates that they're not banking everything on an athletic career. A lot of people didn't like the Williams' sisters dad, but as rough-edged as he was, I always thought Venus and Serena almost came off pretty mature and composed and intelligent, at least in comparison to athletes under scrutiny in general, and especially for teen phenoms. I always thought they'd have been pretty well prepared for life had tennis not been long term for them, as it has been the case for many a kid tennis prodigy.

Without watching it, the only thing that sounds sketchy is the relationship in the marriage. I 100% get the unusual name thing for African Americans...as someone who was cursed/blessed with an unusual and always mispronounced ethnic surname, I don't know what it would be like to be a Smith, Brown or Jones, and that isn't even bringing into consideration that it wouldn't be my family's name. I definitely see why people go for original names.

But it does seem a weird thing to not give the mother input on at all...you'd think that you come up with some parameters, and then some consensus within those. Especially when she DOES have a family/ancestral name. But again, I didn't see the piece yet, and it sounds like a pretty complex naming algorithm, so I guess maybe I'm not getting the whole story.