If you’re a Detroit Lions fan, you know about this one. So this one’s for everyone else out there: the Detroit Lions have been an NFL franchise since 1930, when they were the Portsmouth Spartans.

Michigan native and actor Jeff Daniels is credited with ending the Detroit Lions' "Curse of Bobby Layne" thanks to a spell he ...

singing about "The Curse of Bobby Layne." It's a song about the dreaded curse that hung over the Lions for decades, until he and Peyton Manning broke it. That's the short version of the story.

The Curse of Bobby Layne has been engrained in the folklore of the Detroit Lions for more than 60 years as a way to explain their unmatched ability to fail. Layne, who helped lead the Lions to ...