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.

“Because it's whiskey,” Manning said. “Bobby Layne would have preferred that.” Ah yes, the curse of Bobby Layne. As every Lions fan knows, the Lions traded him in 1958 and he put a curse on the Lions.

I have no doubt, somewhere up there on that gridiron in the sky, Bobby Layne was having a good laugh all season as injury upon injury mounted for the Lions on defense. I'm guessing the Blond ...

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.

Daniels recently appeared on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" and performed a song he wrote about the curse and Lions ...

With Saturday’s NFL playoff game between the Detroit Lions and the Washington Commanders days away, Jeff Daniels spent part of Tuesday spreading Motor City momentum on “The Tonight Show.” While ...

Michigan native and actor Jeff Daniels is credited with ending the Detroit Lions' "Curse of Bobby Layne" thanks to a spell he and former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning performed in the end zone of ...