OT - Lions

If unfamiliar with "the curse," take a look:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Layne

Bobby Layne. If you keep spelling his name wrong, how can we get away from the curse? Respect!

Not to tarnish a legend but this is beyond tarnishing:

Former Packer Paul Hornung, who played against Layne in the 13-13 game revealed in his 2004 autobiography “Golden Boy”:

“In the second game of the 1958 season, Layne did something peculiar against our team in Green Bay. The Lions were 3 ½ point favorites and as Layne told me later, he had bet on them to cover the spread. With the score tied at 13 late in the fourth quarter the field goal team came onto the field to win the game but Layne shushed them off. Layne then overthrew his receiver in the end zone (note: this fact is wrong)and the game ended in a tie. It was obvious he had bet on the game. Layne later told me he was confident he could get a touchdown and win the game that way. Bobby gambled more than anybody who ever played football period. How did the league go all those years without ever getting him?”

Investigative reporter Dan Moldea wrote in his book “Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football” that Detroiter Donald “Dice” Dawson, a convicted gambler, told him that he had placed bets with Layne and that Layne “had fixed games or shaved points in no fewer than seven games over a period of four years while Layne played with the Detroit Lions and later the Pittsburgh Steelers.”

In Layne's defense of his alcoholism: Karras said that he heard that Layne’s lack of sleep was due to fear of sleeping, because when Bobby was a kid he lost his parents in a car accident and spent an entire night stuck in the overturned car with their dead bodies.

It happened in my lifetime. I was one year old. 

This does feel very odd. We stomp IU. Red Wings beat the Lightning. Lions beat the Bucs and have the best record in the league. And as the cherry on top, Sparty gags. It gets no better.

Projections don't mean shit. Gibbs was going to go at 15 if the Lions didn't take him at 12, and Campbell was going to go somewhere in the 20s. Both of that information was leaked by teams after the draft, unlike the bogus "projections" made by idiots like Mel Kiper (if he's that good at evaluating talent, how come he's never been a GM anywhere? Oh wait, Matt Millen literally picked his best available player every single year and look how that turned out...)

Gibbs has been very good in his somewhat limited time. Darko was never good.

You realize the projections are made by people who aren't good enough to actually work in the NFL, right??   Same as the recruiting rankings, the coaches have a way higher budget to hire the best people (coaches) to actually analyze potential players, rather than hire guys who have a journalism degree and get excited writing about recruiting.