Weren't We Just Talking About This?

BPR News | By Matt Bush

Published January 25, 2019 at 2:02 PM EST

In our last episode "Losing", John & Marcia agreed that the toughest kind of loss is one where the key play or key moment of a game is decided by a missed or blown call by an official. It only took a month for their point to be proved. This year's NFL Conference Championship games both went to overtime for the first time in league history. That didn't make headlines though - the officials did, mostly for a missed pass interference call in the NFC championship game. Our hosts talk about why these types of losses hurt and anger so much.

(Music featured includes Lemon And Melon by Blue Dot Sessions)

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Matt Bush

Matt Bush joined Blue Ridge Public Radio as news director in August 2016. Excited at the opportunity the build up the news service for both stations as well as help launch BPR News, Matt made the jump to Western North Carolina from Washington D.C. For the 8 years prior to coming to Asheville, he worked at the NPR member station in the nation's capital as a reporter and anchor. Matt primarily covered the state of Maryland, including 6 years of covering the statehouse in Annapolis. Prior to that, he worked at WMAL in Washington and Metro Networks in Pittsburgh, the city he was born and raised in.

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