Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell said he’s in the process of selling his family’s suburban Motown home after amateur sleuths learned where they reside.
“The home is beautiful,” Campbell told Crain’s Detroit Business, speaking about his family’s now former pad. “It’s just that people figured out where we lived when we lost.”
The Lions, the longtime laughingstocks of pro football, are anything but a joke in their fourth season under Campbell and a legitimate Super Bowl contender.
The Lions have come 3-13 to 9-8 to 12-5 in Campbell’s first three campaigns as the coach and his wife had been enjoying life in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills.
During the Lions’ run to the NFC title game last season, they lost, 20-19, to the Dallas Cowboys on Dec. 30, 2023.
In a typical Lions season, losing to the Cowboys would simply be called Sunday. But in this new era of Lions football, winning has become expected.
That loss triggered a string of pranks that has Campbell concerned for his privacy and the safety of his family.
Ashley Crain, who represented the Campbells in this sale, declined to detail the pranks but said they bordered on “scary.”
“It was like handymen pretending to come do some work on their house,” Crain told NBC News on Friday. “And it was actually a little bit scary because they’re grown men and their 18-year-old daughter was at the house. Obviously, when (the Lions are) on the road, he’s not home.”
That prank didn’t lead to any criminal charges, but she said the coach and his family now live in more hard-to-find locale.
“They’re a little further out so they could have a little more privacy,” Crain said.
Campbell and his family moved to another spot in Oakland County before their “beautiful” house was listed for sale for $4.5 million.
As of Friday, the property on Quarton Road, about 23 miles north of Ford Field, was listed as “pending.”
The home was built in 2013 for one-time Detroit Red wings great Igor Larionov, who is in a Hockey Hall of Fame.
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