Once I tackled him and smelled his breath and said, ‘Geez, Bobby, you must have been on quite a bender last night.’ He said, ‘Aw, I had a few at halftime.’ ”
- Art Donovan on Bobby Layne
(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.)
Ha. Never heard that before