The Curse of Bobby Layne 1. Bobby Layne’s early life was anything but easy. Bobby Layne was born on December 19, 1926, in Santa Anna, Texas. At the age of eight, Layne’s life turned upside ...

Detroit Lions former quarterback and NFL Hall of Famer Bobby Layne is honored at the coin toss prior to Super Bowl XVI at the Silverdome, Jan. 24, 1982 in Pontiac, Michigan.

The Curse of Bobby Layne 1. Bobby Layne’s early life was anything but easy. Bobby Layne was born on December 19, 1926, in Santa Anna, Texas. At the age of eight, Layne’s life turned upside ...

The curse of Bobby Layne doesn’t exist. Even if it did, Peyton Manning and Jeff Daniels already exorcised it with that sacrificial bathtub of booze on a “Peyton’s Place” episode.

The Bobby Layne Curse is alive and well Horns247's Chip Brown, a lifelong Detroit Lions' fan who has covered the Texas Longhorns since 1992, explains why the curse put on the Lions by the ...

Real or imagined, the Curse of Bobby Layne has hung over the Detroit Lions franchise for more than six decades, and now Peyton Manning has enlisted Hollywood’s help to try and break it.. Manning ...

DETROIT — In 1958 a disgruntled Hall of Fame quarterback supposedly laid a curse on the Detroit Lions after being traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Bobby Layne was the quarterback for the Lions ...

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 ...

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 title for 50 years.

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, ...