It's the weekend before the biggest election in human history, and I know what everyone's looking for! What? New swing-state polls? No, I don't have, uhhh… that… I do have classic NFL Primetime highlights, though! After adding another Sonoton song last week, it also turns out we weren't done with David Reilly's Success album. "Quest for the Best 2" ("2" in this case means underscore) is the fifth song from that album to be used on Primetime. It was only used 4 times that I'm aware of, putting it fourth among the five tracks (Inter Conference was used only twice). It's a good piece, but its obvious similarities to Title Holder make it unsurprising that it was infrequent. I think it was also a good call by John Colby to go with the underscore and not the base track. Quest for the Best 1 marginalizes the bass too much, and that caused the song to lose the power it has in the underscore version. Special thanks to GodzFire for ID'ing this track.
Some bad news about the Success album, however. It seems the Universal Production Music site is no longer hosting the album. The only streaming source I can find now is a YouTube post of the entire album linked above, though Quest for the Best 1 is posted all over that site thanks to its apparent use in Spongebob Squarepants.
And now for the highlight… In Week 6 of the 1989 season, a Bears' loss to the Oilers opened the door for the somehow 3-2 Tampa Bay Buccaneers to actually tie Chicago & Minnesota for first place in the NFC Central. And all they had to do was beat an 0-5 Detroit Lions squad (with then-rookie Barry Sanders out) in the Big Sombrero, too! Would they accomplish their seemingly simple quest!? If you're familiar with the Bucs' "success" in that era, you can probably guess how that went…
