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| The curse of Bobby Layne
It doesn't end until Monday, so don't bet the Lions this Sunday  Quote:
ALLEN PARK -- It's half-myth, half-legend and all conjecture. Logically, it's hard to believe. But when dissecting the Lions' half-century of futility, why bother with logic? Nobody seems to know if the Lions' greatest quarterback ever, Bobby Layne, cursed the franchise when he was traded to Pittsburgh on Oct. 6, 1958. Newspaper archives reveal no evidence of the phrase supposedly muttered by Layne -- that the Lions "would not win for 50 years."
It's not really important who heard it (officially, no one) or who believes it (um, you?). It's only important that the shadowy Curse of Bobby Layne expires in four days, on Monday, Oct. 6, exactly 50 years after Layne departed when the Lions were reigning NFL champs, a glory team of the 1950s.
This Sunday, the 0-3 Lions face the Bears in the first game after the dreadful Matt Millen Era, in the last game of the dreaded Bobby Layne Curse Era. Perhaps a public ceremony, with appropriate mystical chanting and jersey burning, is in order.
| The curse of Bobby Layne on the Lions | The Detroit News | detnews.com  |
