Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell has moved his family to a new house and is selling their old home after their address was reportedly leaked online by his daughter’s classmate, who was upset over the team’s loss in last season’s NFC Championship game.
Campbell, 48, and his wife Holly were still in San Francisco following the Lions’ 34-31 loss to the 49ers in the NFC Championship game when their teenage daughter alerted them that multiple people were suddenly showing up outside the family’s house, and that a flurry of phone calls were coming in, according to The Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press and NBC affiliate WDIV-TV.
The coach’s daughter was at the home with her boyfriend, who went outside in his car and began flashing his lights at anyone who came up to the house to scare them off, according to police reports obtained by the outlets.
“The Campbells were nervous for the safety of their daughter and instructed her to leave the home with her boyfriend for the evening,” the police report stated.
Dan Campbell.
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The Bloomfield Township Police Department, NFL league security and Detroit Lions team security began investigating the incident, according to the outlets.
An NFL security official soon discovered a Snapchat post made by one of Campbell’s daughter’s classmates, which appeared to reference the coach’s controversial fourth-quarter decision to go for a first down instead of kicking a game-tying field goal against the 49ers — the three points that ended up being the difference in the game.
The Snapchat post included Campbell’s name and home address alongside the text “Dumb f— trying to go for it,” according to the outlets.
In police reports obtained by the outlets, officers said the classmate was watching the game with a group of friends and they were “distraught from the loss and needed to clear their heads,” leading to the social media post.
Dan Campbell.
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According to The Detroit News, Holly Campbell spoke with the mother of the classmate who shared the address. The classmate’s mother, Leslie, told Holly that her son had only reposted another post with the family’s address in it, and that “the post was only up for three minutes, he had 30 views on the post, believed it was a fake address, and quickly removed it after he thought about it,” according to the police report.
However, an investigation also showed the classmate drove to the Campbell’s house with a group of friends the night of the Lions’ loss, parked outside and yelled obscenities at the home, according to TheDetroit News and the Detroit Free Press.
Police told the Campbells the information they gathered about the incident was not enough to file criminal charges, according to the outlets.
