DETROIT Lions head coach Dan Campbell was forced to move homes after his address was leaked online.
After the Lions lost in the NFC Championship to the San Francisco 49ers, a classmate of Campbell’s daughter revealed their address on Snapchat.
Dan Campbell’s address was leaked after the NFC Championship game last season[/caption]
A classmate of Campbell’s daughter leaked the address on Snapchat[/caption]
The Campbell family listed their Bloomfield Hills home for sale at $4.5 million after the incident due to security concerns.
“There’s plenty of space, it’s on two acres, the home is beautiful,” Campbell told Crain’s Detroit.
“It’s just that people figured out where we lived when we lost.”
After the loss, a student posted an angry message to their Snapchat and shared where Campbell and his family lived.
“Dumb f*** trying to go for it,” they captioned the snapchat.
The student was referencing Campbell’s consequential decision to pass up a field goal opportunity twice in favor of trying for a fourth down conversion.
Both times the Lions failed to convert and missed out on six points that would have won them the game. Instead, Detroit lost 34-31.
Having the family’s location revealed reportedly frightened Campbell’s daughter, which caused Lions and NFL security to get involved in the situation.
Individuals were coming to Campbell’s home at night which, “scared the daughter who left for the night,” according to Bloomfield Township Police.
The student who revealed the Campbell’s address is a classmate a year behind the daughter at an ‘exclusive private school,” according to the Detroit News.
Police were able to speak to the student’s mother, who expressed apologies to Campbell’s wife, Holly, and said her son didn’t intend to hurt the family.
“Leslie stated that she was aware of the situation and that Mrs. Campbell had already contacted her and left her a message about (the classmate’s) post,” the police report said.
“Leslie stated (her son) ‘re-posted, the post was only up for 3 minutes, he had 30 views on the post, believed it was a fake address, and quickly removed it after he thought about it.’
“Leslie told me that the Campbell’s address is publicly out there online and that her son did not contribute to anyone showing up.”
Some fans did show up to the Campbell’s house, and four police reports were filed regarding incidents, but the family has since moved houses and moved on from the incident.
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“No disrespect, man. I don’t even want to go there with any of it,” Campbell said before his 20-13 win over the Cardinals.
“It’s all good. Man, I’ve got a job to do. My primary job here is to coach this team and have them prepared every week. I’ve got to do my job and that’s the sole focus.
“I love our fans. Fans are unbelievable. This city, there’s nowhere that I would want to be or any other team I’d want to coach for.
“It’s rare to have an environment like we have and be able to coach here, play here and I tell our guys all the time.
“This is a rare spot and you better enjoy it because not every place has it like we have it.”
Campbell was forced to sell his house after his address was leaked[/caption]
