Sunday, January 4, 2026 officially marked the end of the 2025 NFL regular season. If your team makes the playoffs, you get at least one more game—and a shot at the “Big Game,” or as it’s sometimes legally referred to unless you’re an official sponsor… the “Superb Owl.”

On that day, my Tennessee Titans were soundly defeated by longtime rivals, the Jacksonville Jaguars —a rivalry that dates back to 1995, when the Jags entered the league as an expansion team in the AFC Central alongside the Steelers, Bengals, Ravens (freshly moved from Cleveland by Art Modell), and the Houston Oilers, who would soon relocate and eventually become the Tennessee Titans.

Something very significant happened this week, a piece of CDB musical history has been carefully, lovingly and painstakingly preserved.

It involves the most recognizable of all CDB songs, the song that despite its inauspicious beginnings made a simple story created out of necessity into one of the most recognizable songs of the 20th Century and still going strong into the 21st.