A Detroit Lions timeout may have done more than slow down the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night. In Chesterfield Township, Michigan, it may have kept Michael Pingel alive.
Pingel was sitting on his couch when the Lions called timeout late in their 20-17 win over Green Bay on October 25 at Ford Field. He got up and started toward the kitchen, and that’s when a black Kia came crashing through his living room wall. The vehicle stopped just feet from where he had been sitting.
The damage to the home was significant. After the crash, four people reportedly got out of the car and said someone had cut them off. One person was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.
Pingel talked with WDIV the next morning and described the moment as the game was winding down and the Packers were driving for a field goal. “It was the end of the game, and they were marching down for the field goal,” Pinkel recalled. “And they called time out, I got up from the couch and started walking into the kitchen - and a car came through.”
He said the room flashed orange and for a second he thought the house was burning. “But it was the running lights from the car,” he explained. “I’m lucky I still wasn’t on the couch,” said the Detroit Lions fan.
Pingel came out of the ordeal unharmed, but he is now asking for help finding his cat, who went missing during the chaos.
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