The Detroit Lions are a team of many supposed curses. There’s the Bobby Layne curse. You know the old chestnut. Layne got traded and allegedly said something to the effect of “the Lions won’t win for 50 years” or something like that. There’s the Dagger Time curse. That’s one I just made up today to make it seem like the Lions have more curses. Although judging by the way this team was left after that slogan was created, it might be real.
The curse I want to talk about today is the second round curse. The story goes that the Lions drafted Harry Hopp in the second round of the 1941 NFL Draft and then released him two years later.