Some NFL franchises would be completely irrelevant if not for that one single player who changed everything forever for their ...

Bobby Layne, the tough Texan who led the Lions to ... for 50 years after they traded him away in 1958 to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Turns out the three-time NFL champion was Nostradamus in training.

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 ...

You’re on the list. This brings us to the Curse of Bobby Layne. Back in 1958, the Lions traded Layne to the Pittsburgh Steelers, and an angry Layne allegedly declared the Lions wouldn’t win a ...

“Doesn't smell like water,” Daniels said. “Because it's whiskey,” Manning said. “Bobby Layne would have preferred that.” Ah yes, the curse of Bobby Layne. As every Lions fan ...