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Detroit Lions star Amon-Ra St. Brown apologized to anyone who was “offended” by his tribute to President Donald Trump during his team’s victory over the Washington Commanders on Sunday.
St. Brown performed Trump’s signature dance after scoring a touchdown and then pointed to the president, who was present at Northwest Stadium.
Brown addressed the incident and the public response during an episode of his podcast on Wednesday.
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Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown celebrates after scoring during the first half of an NFL football game against the Washington Commanders on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025 in Landover, Maryland. (Stephanie Scarbrough/AP Photo)
“If I offended anyone, I apologize. I didn’t mean to offend anyone. We’re just having fun,” he said. “If any president had been at that game, if he had a dance, I would have done it. It had nothing to do with who the president was.”
Trump became the first sitting US president to attend a regular season NFL game since Jimmy Carter in 1978.
For St. Brown, it was a special occasion.
“Even after the game, someone tells me ‘That’s the first game a president has attended in over 40 years,’ the first game of the regular season, which is crazy,” St. Brown said. “We were just having fun dancing, it was nothing more, nothing less.”
Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Jourdan Lewis appeared to criticize St. Brown for doing the dance in a since-deleted social media post.
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Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown (14) celebrates a touchdown against the Washington Commanders during the first half at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (Junfu Han/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
“The truth is coming out,” he wrote Monday night before separately adding: “You do that in one of the blackest cities in America?”
Lewis, who is from detroit and played in college at Michigan, deleted the last post.
The St. Brown’s Lions beat Washington 44-22, and he finished with five receptions for 58 yards and the touchdown.
Trump has attended many sporting events over the past 13 months. In addition to the Pittsburgh Steelers game last season and the Super Bowl, he has been to UFC fights, the Daytona 500, the US Open and the Ryder Cup.
Some Commanders fans at Sunday’s game were the subject of controversy after they booed Trump as he read the names of those enlisting in the U.S. military over the team’s public address system. The new military members were at Northwest Stadium as part of the NFL’s “Salute to Service” festivities ahead of Veterans Day.
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The boos came at a time when Trump’s prospects in the Washington, D.C., area have been hurt by the recent government shutdown. Days before the game, ESPN reported that Trump wants the Commanders’ new $3.7 billion stadium project to be named after him.
The White House did not confirm the report, but in an earlier statement, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “It would surely be a beautiful name, since it was President Trump who made the reconstruction of the new stadium possible.”
