Bobby Layne

Wow.

Lost to, like, Bobby Lane's Lions or something, but...

And they finally figured out, like, how is this guy winning all of these fucking games? Nobody took the kicking game seriously, and he did, and he had this guy Lou "The Toe" Groza, and they started looking at how many times he had won by two or three points because, you know, whatever, these field goals adding up.

And, uh, that changed the whole thing, and, you know, we have a friend of ours that says, uh, field goals are for losers, and it's like, it's-

The problem that they had is it's been family owned, and the first guy-

Yeah

... was a, was a football guy, went back when they had, uh, uh, what, uh, Bobby Lane, and they won.

And then what's happened as they go down, it's just like, you're not a football guy, but you're born into this billionaire family.

And I wanna say the Browns, at least they had Jim Brown, and they had a time.

Bobby Lane, baby.

No, uh, the Panthers, the Jaguars, the Cardinals, th- those kind of teams, you...

What-

Leland, uh, Traverse City.

And, uh, some, one of the guys said, "Play Bobby, play 'Bobby Layne.'" So I said, "Okay.

Here it is." We're actually, we have a screen here-

Yeah

That's great

...

I'll open for an hour and finish with "The Curse of Bobby Layne," and then we'll put the Lions game on through this sound system.

Will you tell Shannon the, uh, how Peyton Manning and all that stuff came about?

Lou Grosso of the Browns kicked three field goals, and Chick Chigaty scored a touchdown for Cleveland, but the Lions won it in the final minutes.

on a 33-yard pass play from Bobby Lane to Jim Doran.

Back in Cleveland in 1954, Otto Graham was the big gun, running for three touchdowns, passing for the same number as the Browns defeated the Lions, 56-10.

And here again this afternoon, it's the Browns and the Detroit Lions battling it out for the World Football Championship.

They entered the National Football League in 1950, and since then have been in the title game in all seasons except last year when they finished with a 5-7 record and finished fourth place in the Eastern Division.

That record, incidentally, marked the first time that a Paul Brown coached team lost more games than it won.

We spoke a while ago about Tommy O'Connell, the Browns quarterback, and of course the big boy in the Detroit attack this afternoon will be Tobin Rowe, who has succeeded Bobby Lane as quarterback of the Detroit Lions.

And now, our national anthem.

Well, you know, we haven't been to a Super Bowl ever.

We haven't won a championship since the 1950s, and Bobby Layne was the quarterback.

But, you know, the team is better.

Uh, the last few years we, we came within about a half of, of going a few years ago in the NFC Championship game, which they blew a 17-point lead to the 49ers.

Now he wasn't a raw, raw guy.

He wasn't, Bobby Lane and, you know, who kick you in the butt and give you a fiery speech in the huddle or something.

So he wasn't raw, but, uh, and I, and a lot of the guys that fought more were to, you know, sort of had that type of mentality, but, uh, I think his leadership comes from, like I mentioned a little bit earlier, like here's a guy who came from the deep South, you know, in Mississippi, he came to New York.

I mean, his first year, you know, he befriends, you know, Emlyn Tunnell.

In the 50s, there was a lot of really good quarterbacks.

And they all won championships.

And, you know, outside of a token, Tobin wrote – won the 57 title with the lions, but Bobby lane broke his leg late in the year.

And it just happened that the team was a championship team.

I never have enough time.

That reminds me of Bobby Lane.

Bobby Lane was a very famous American football player.

And in the interviews, he said: «I've never lost a football game in my life.

I've simply run out of time».

Wait a second.

Is that Bobby Lane?

No, I think that's Justin Lane.

I mean, we're getting back.

But that's how

far back he's going that I think he's referencing Bobby Lane, the black and white photos in the crew cut.

Yeah.

You're trying to connect stuff that really doesn't exist to be connected for the most part, other than it is the Steelers and the draft.