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 ...

Bobby Layne was ... member of the Class of 2017. Layne was originally drafted by the Steelers, but traded to the Chicago Bears where he began his career in 1948. He went on to the New York Bulldogs in ...

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.