‘Mickey Mouse locker room’—Detroit Lions star offers a bizarre review of his first visit to the Miami Dolphins’ home stadium
Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown offered some choice words for the Miami Dolphins’ home at Hard Rock Stadium.
The Miami Dolphins made the Detroit Lions earn every bit of their 19-9 victory at Hard Rock Stadium this past Sunday. That’s not much of a consolation prize for a Miami franchise fishing for another win. But it is the truth of the matter.
On the heels of the win, one of the Detroit Lions’ biggest players offered some interesting feedback about the Week 9 contest. More specifically, where it was played. Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown called the visiting locker room at Hard Rock Stadium a ‘Mickey Mouse locker room’.
‘The locker room felt like a Mickey Mouse locker room’ — Amon-Ra St. Brown has some interesting feedback about Hard Rock Stadium
“First of all, this was my first time playing in Miami. I asked my teammates, I asked training staff, everyone that was near me, I was like ‘did that game feel weird?’, they all said yes. The locker room felt like a Mickey Mouse locker room—it was a nice locker room but it like, it was just a little different. Locker room was a little different. Lighting was a little different. Grass was good but like, I don’t know. Something about it just felt weird.”
— Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown
St. Brown’s brother, Equanimeous, proceeded to compare the stadium to a “cruise ship stadium”. Amon-Ra said he felt like he was “in a video game”.
Huh. Okay. I would understand if this was a continuation of the visiting team takeover discourse that hit the internet this week. If you missed that, several Dolphins players, when asked, acknowledged they’ve noticed the swarms of visiting team fans this season for the Dolphins’ home games. It’s an unfortunate but expected byproduct of Miami’s reset and transition in 2026. If you want to fix that? Simple. Win. And win often.
Miami is a destination city and visiting fans are undoubtedly going to soft circle games at Hard Rock Stadium as a possible game to visit as a result. The Dolphins’ franchise getting back to winning will solve much of that storyline. But this? This is something different.
Lighting in the locker room? The color of the stadium seats? Shame on me, perhaps, for giving these comments the added reach that was probably hoped for. But as weird as the game may have felt, hearing criticism about the lights in the locker room feels just as weird. Make of it whatever you will.
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