Lacrosse? Why not?
The Islanders' season is over for MSG Networks play-by-play man Brendan Burke, and it will not resume until October. So when NBC came calling about him calling the Premier Lacrosse League’s inaugural season, he signed up.
The challenge: He has not called a lacrosse game since he was at Ithaca College in the mid-2000s, when the student TV station would head to the next hill over to work Cornell men’s games.
So after agreeing to the PLL job, Burke “immersed” himself in the sport, to the point that he “had to fight myself during some hockey broadcasts to not throw out lacrosse terminology.