The Detroit Lions have won just one game in the last 50 years. The team has never won a game since a player claimed a 'curse' on them in 1958. Who was the player who claimed this supposed curse?

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The quarterback was played by Robert Lawrence Layne, who played in the NFL for 15 seasons (December 19, 1926 – December 1 1986). He played for chicago bears in 1948, the bulldogs in New York in 1949, the lions in Detroit in 1950-58 and the steelers in Pittsburgh between 1958-62.