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.
In Campbell’s first three seasons, the Lions have gone from 3-13 to 9-8 to 12-5. The coach and his spouse had been living comfortably in the Bloomfield Hills neighborhood of Detroit.
On December 30, 2023, the Lions, who had advanced to the NFC championship game the previous season, fell to the Dallas Cowboys, 20-19.
A season without a loss to the Cowboys would just be called Sunday for the Lions. But winning has become the norm in this new chapter of Lions football history.
Following that loss, a series of practical jokes have Campbell worried for his family’s safety and privacy. The Campbells’ agent in this transaction, Ashley Crain, declined to go into specifics about the practical jokes, other than to say they were “scary.”
Crain said to NBC News on Friday, “It was like handymen pretending to come do some work on their house.” “And since their 18-year-old daughter was at the house and they are mature men, it was actually a little frightening.
He’s obviously not at home while the Lions are traveling.” Although no criminal charges resulted from the prank, she said the coach and his family now reside in a more remote area.
“They’re a little further out so they could have a little more privacy,” Crain stated. Before their “beautiful” house in Oakland County was put up for sale for $4.5 million, Campbell and his family relocated to a different location.
The property on Quarton Road, approximately 23 miles north of Ford Field, was classified as “pending” as of Friday. Igor Larionov, a former star of the Detroit Red Wings who is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, had the house constructed in 2013.
