Detroit Lions receiver disses Kansas City as a place to call home on his podcast
The Chiefs play host to the Detroit Lions in October on “Sunday Night Football,” and a national television audience might detect some boos from the crowd at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.
The jeers wouldn’t be directed at the home team, of course. They would be for Lions receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown.
That may sound strange, given that St. Brown is likely not a name familiar to most Chiefs fans. Although he’s a two-time All-Pro who has 4,851 receiving yards and 33 touchdowns in his four NFL seasons, St. Brown is not usually the type of person to cause waves.
But on the latest episode of the St. Brown podcast, which Amon-Ra co-hosts with his brother, Equanimeous, the siblings spoke with former Park Hill High School star receiver Jaylin Noel and the talk turned to Kansas City.
The brothers asked if Noel, who was drafted by the Texans earlier this year, wanted to go to the Chiefs.
“It would have been cool for sure,” Noel said.
Noel was asked if he was a Chiefs fan growing up.
“Yeah,” he acknowledged. “And then now I’m like (with the) Texans, so now it’s like whatever.”
The St. Brown boys noted how good it has been to be a Chiefs fan with three Super Bowl championships in the Patrick Mahomes Era. But Noel, who played at Iowa State, noted it wasn’t always like that.
“They didn’t used to be that good,” he said. “It was like 2-14 and then ... it was really turned around when Andy Reid got there, he kind of turned it around and obviously Pat Mahomes, right? But yeah, Chiefs fans are spoiled now.”
Noel talked about making the move to Houston and how life is different than growing up in Kansas City (or spending time in Ames, Iowa).
And like every human being on the planet, Noel is not a fan of humidity.
“City-wise, it’s a lot faster,” Noel said of Houston. “Kansas City, I call it like a medium city. Like, you have slow parts, faster parts, but Houston is a lot faster. And then, I mean, the humidity is all the time in Houston.
“Kansas City, people might not know, but Midwest in the summer, you’ve got like a month-and-a-half period, it’ll get hot. But it’s definitely an adjustment period in terms of how fast the city is and the weather. But I like it so far.”
St. Brown criticizes Kansas City
Amon-Ra St. Brown, who grew up in southern California, recalled spending time in Kansas City during the 2023 NFL Draft. He wasn’t impressed.
“I’ve been in Kansas City. I was there for the draft,” he noted. “I’m sorry, like, I don’t know how you ... if you have money, like, I’m not living here after I get some money.”
That’s pretty harsh, right? But Noel defended KC.
“I mean, you’ve just got to know the right places to go. ... But KC, it’s good vibes there,” he said. “I’m a little biased.”
You can listen to the discussion about Kansas City on the podcast’s YouTube page.
This story was originally published June 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM.
