Amon-Ra St. Brown explains origin of Lions' 'Human Centipede' celebration

Nolan Bianchi, The Detroit News on Nov 15, 2026

Published in Football

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MUNICH, Germany — After Amon-Ra St. Brown's second touchdown in the Lions' 35-10 win over the New England Patriots on Sunday, Detroit's offense sent a shiver down everyone's spine with a celebration that looked straight out of "The Human Centipede."

St. Brown explained the unsettling celebration after the game, saying it was something the offense saw from an NFL Europe game in a clip showed to them by passing game coordinator Mike Kafka.

"We had a meeting ... Coach Kafka comes up. He does his presentation of rules that we have to be careful of, (be on) alert for, it's different stuff every week," St. Brown explained.

"He was showing us an NFL Europe game. ... The guy scored, they did that celebration. We were all laughing in the meeting room. We were like, 'We got to do that when we score.' I said, 'First touchdown, we got to do it.' "

But he scored the first touchdown on an electrifying 56-yard catch and run to the end zone and was "too lit" after igniting the crowd to remember. He also told Jahmyr Gibbs that if Gibbs scored, he should hop on the edge of the stands and hit the celebration made famous by soccer star Jude Bellingham, so it didn't happen then.

Then wide receiver Isaac TeSlaa scored his touchdown of the season and "blacked out," as St. Brown put it, spiking the ball and walking toward the crowd.

So when St. Brown got into the end zone for a second time to put Detroit up 28-3 with 8:16 remaining in the third quarter, everyone fell in line. Literally.

St. Brown got on his hands and knees and started crawling, followed by TeSlaa, then Sione Vaki, and so forth, until 11 players were celebrating in unison — including Gibbs, who wasn't on the field during the play in the first place. The only player who didn't join in was wide receiver Jameson Williams.

"It was lit," St. Brown said.