9 episodes
Lights Out: The Loss of a Lifetime Entertainment One & Campside Media
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4.6 • 96 Ratings
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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.
A Campside Media and Entertainment One production.
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Episode 8: The Story
Host, Matt Stanmyre, reflects on his years-long reporting journey and answers lingering questions about the making of the series.
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Episode 7: Just A Game
Decades later, the memory of the game lingers for both Rams and Mounties players as they navigate work and family, and try to preserve a fading legacy.
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Episode 6: The Quarterback
After the 1990 game, the Mounties star quarterback disappears, and other players struggle to find their footing in life. Four years later, the Mounties have a shot at revenge.
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Episode 5: The Aftermath
The “Miracle at Montclair'' game hovers over Montclair High like a black cloud. As players and coaches grapple with how to move on, they’re stunned by a bizarre staffing shakeup.
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Episode 4: The Game
Both teams manage jitters and pressure as they prepare for the biggest game of their lives. Legacy, immortality and more are at stake. It all comes down to the final seconds, when some say a miracle occurs that changes the course of the game.
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Episode 3: Unfinished Business
In the face of building pressure, the 1990 Montclair Mounties rise up the national rankings and have a chance to break a school record. But they meet their match in the Randolph Rams, a formidable opponent with everything to lose.
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Customer Reviews
Good show
Learned about this on Lost In Jersey (which is another good podcast). I'm not from Montclair but it's a good story of high school football and all the people involved in ONE crucial game in 1990.
Well made but
I’m just confused…I graduated from Montclair a few years after this and absolutely no one I knew cared about football at all. It just seems like the importance of this game is completely overblown in the town, per my experience. Montclair has way too much going on for the town to be as invested as this podcast seems to make it. Kinda seems like the people who cared the most were all just other former football players.
Found the clips of the reporter talking to people through doors who didn’t want to talk about the game (the coach’s wife, everyone on the search for the former QB) particularly cringey to listen to…if they don’t want to talk about it, maybe don’t play that audio.
Bravo, Matt and the podcast crew!
I’m the proud father of one of the captains of the 1990 Mounties, and have been fully absorbed by your brilliant effort, Matt. Truly engaging story telling, combined with very professional production support = a masterful portrayal of an epic event.
Our family re-energized a dormant Mountie football fan club, sponsored (and produced) the annual football dinner for the team, and I personally gathered, edited and professionally bound the football yearbook given as a memento to everyone involved in that team.
We threw the end-of-season party for the players, and co-hosted a celebratory reception for the coaches, team, and families.
In other words, we were ‘invested’ in the 1990 Mounties, and reveled in their victories, and suffered in their soul-crushing loss.
I will share with you the fact that our son, a highly successful businessman and devoted sports fan, has NEVER gone back to Woodman Field, and quiets down whenever that game is mentioned. He’s aware of ‘Lights Out’ and has listened to it, but won’t talk about it.
So, thank you for your professionalism. It has touched so many of us quite deeply.