Sports Journalist Matt Stanmyre embarks on a journey to examine the stranger-than-fiction twists, life-altering consequences and dramatic mysteries of the most iconic high school football game of all time. For this one New Jersey town it’s the day that changed everything. And decades later, they are still trying to pick up the pieces.
About the Host
Matthew Stanmyre is an enterprise, projects and investigative reporter for NJ Advance Media, the largest news organization in New Jersey serving The Star-Ledger and NJ.com. Stanmyre focuses on in-depth sports and investigative reporting, long-form storytelling and watchdog oversight of state institutions in a digital/mobile-first newsroom. Stanmyre has won 20 national writing awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors in the largest circulation category for breaking news, feature writing, project reporting, investigative reporting, multimedia and beat writing, including four national first-place prizes and several top five finishes.