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bobby lane won the 52 and 53 nfl championship but didnt make it a 3 peet in 54 as he was drunk before the game ...and hes famous for this my only request," he once said, "is that I draw my last dollar and my last breath at precisely the same instant." [29] "Curse of Bobby Layne"In 1958, the defending NFL champion Lions traded Layne to the Pittsburgh Steelers in early October for Earl Morrall and two draft choices. [25] [26] [27] Layne responded to the trade by supposedly saying that the Lions would "not win for 50 years." [39][ dead link] While this story has been called a hoax, particularly because the quote was never published at the time, [40] over the next half-century after this trade, the Lions had the sixth lowest winning percentage of any team in the NFL. The Lions have had multiple consecutive losing seasons and have been swept by division rivals constantly, and are 1–12 in postseason appearances since their 1957 championship, the worst record of any team; their lone playoff win was over Dallas in 1991. In 2008, the last year of the supposed curse, the Lions lost all sixteen games. As for the Steelers, they won the Super Bowl that year, as well as in their previous appearance (in Detroit) in 2006, and would become one of the most dominant teams in the NFL, though this took place after Layne's career, winning six Super Bowls: 1974 ( IX), 1975 ( X), 1978 ( XIII), 1979 ( XIV), 2005 ( XL) and 2008 ( XLIII). [41] In the 2009 NFL draft, immediately after the supposed curse had expired, the Detroit Lions selected University of Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford first overall. Stafford was an alumnus of Layne's former school Highland Park High School and lived in a house on the same street as Layne's. [42] In 2011, Stafford's first full injury-free season, he led the Lions to their first playoff berth since 1999, but lost to Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints. In 2021, the Detroit Lions traded Stafford to the Los Angeles Rams for Jared Goff in a blockbuster trade. Stafford would go on to win Super Bowl LVI in his first season with the Rams, while the Lions would start the 2021 season 0–10–1, and eventually finish 3–13–1, the second worst record in the NFL. Further, in the 63 years since the curse, the Lions also endured multiple playoff droughts lasting more than six years: including the year of the trade, the Lions did not make the playoffs for twelve consecutive seasons (1958–1969; 1971–1981; 1984–1990; 2000–2010). [43] In October 2022, Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning - who once led his Indianapolis Colts to a blowout victory over the Lions on Thanksgiving Day in 2004 - dedicated an episode of his ESPN series "Peyton's Places" to the curse and its effects on the Lions. Manning placed a bathtub filled with whiskey (in place of water, owing to Layne's hard drinking) and a cup of salt in an endzone at Ford Field to perform a chant over it with actor Jeff Daniels in attempt to lift the curse. [44] After starting their 2022 season 1–6, the Lions performance notably improved after the episode aired; they won eight of their remaining ten games to end with a winning record, prompting speculation that Manning may have succeeded in lifting the curse. [45]