After every NCAA basketball tournament concludes, CBS always puts out its One Shining Moment video montage. It always manages to combine the best memories of the tournament: the glory of the upsets, funny, touching and ludicrous moments and, at the end, the moment that victory is settling in on the winning team: hugs, tears and unadulterated joy.
It’s been happening for so long, everyone just assumes it has always been there.
But it hasn’t.
One Shining Moment made its debut in 1987. It’s been refined over the years, sung by many different people and always a bit of a tear jerker other than say, 2005, 2009 and 2017.