Bobby Layne was born on December 19, 1926, in Santa Anna, Texas. At the age of eight, Layne’s life turned upside down when his father passed away at the age of 36.

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 ...

Bobby Layne was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 1967. Layne was also an inaugural member of the Steelers Hall of Honor as a member of the Class of 2017. Layne was ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Then Bobby Layne happened. GO DEEPER. NFL 100: At No. 89, Bobby Layne, a self-proclaimed Lions legend who lived up to the hype. McMillin shared Layne’s birth state of Texas, but that was it.

Eli Manning asked Dan Campbell if Peyton Manning and Jeff Daniels lifted the curse of Bobby Layne. “I don’t believe in that stuff, but we DID start winning,” Campbell said.

Layne was a noted drinker during his time with the the Lions, so alcohol was totally appropriate. "Bobby Layne would’ve preferred that (to water),” Manning said. The curse dates back to the 1950s.

More: How Jeff Daniels and Peyton Manning said goodbye to Lions curse of Bobby Layne While the Lions still haven't won a championship, the team's fortunes turned around after the episode aired on ...

Jeff Daniels and Bob Seger hang out before the Detroit Lions NFL divisional round playoff game against Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Ford Field in Detroit on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024.