Daniels recently appeared on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" and performed a song he wrote about the curse and Lions' turnaround. It's called "The Curse of Bobby Layne" and he cut the song with the Ben Daniels Band — his son's group. Here are the lyrics to the song. "On my phone was Peyton Manning.

A comedic curse-breaking ritual with Jeff Daniels, Peyton Manning and a bathtub of whiskey credited by Lions fans with breaking curse of Bobby Layne.

This brings us to the Curse of Bobby Layne. Back in 1958, the Lions traded Layne to the Pittsburgh Steelers, and an angry Layne allegedly declared the Lions wouldn’t win a title for 50 years. Now, if that curse was a thing, it would have expired by now, right? And Peyton Manning and actor Jeff Daniels have been trying to get rid of it, too.

Daniels, who had the studio audience and host Jimmy Fallon singing along to the song, also talked about his role in "Dumb & Dumber," which turned 30 last month, and the new season of his Audible memoir, "Jeff Daniels: Alive and Well Enough."

Jeff Daniels appeared on Jimmy Fallon's late-night show to talk about his Audible memoir podcast — and sing a song about the Detroit Lions curse.