OK. Somebody tell me again what exactly is the sport, Lacrosse. I know, it’s where players run around with a webbed basket on the end of a stick, wear a hybrid football/hockey helmet, and fling a solid rubber ball at some wide-bodied bonehead standing in front of a goal. Hang with me here, there’s more!

It seems them Canadians got together one day (probably during a blizzard) and came up with a cockamamie idea to “let’s play this game on a hockey rink and call it ‘Indoor Lacrosse'” (of those clever Canadians). But wait, there’s more!

In the U.S., a professional indoor lacrosse league formed in the late 80’s to play “Box” or “Boxla” (so as not to be confused with outdoor lacrosse – the real version of the sport) called the National Lacrosse League. It has 10 teams currently playing a wicked version of bastardized badminton. Oh yeah, here’s some more!

Perhaps the gate receipts at these contests have been falling, I don’t know.

You see last weekend, the Boston Blazers entertained the families in attendance with Box Lacrosse play and also allowed their mascot Scorch to experience a tacky lap dance at mid-field, during halftime, in front of fans of all ages (watch the YouTube Scorch video below found on the team website – any of you can tell me after seeing the mascot’s painted-on facial expression, mannerisms around town, and the promotional music they associate with the…guy that you’re not surprised this happened).

I still have more!

Expectedly, the lap dance incident did not go over to well with the family-oriented fan base nor with the citizens of Boston. The flippant attitude to the Blazer’s front office didn’t help either from a public relations standpoint. Finally, the fan apology was issued via the team website (you guys are invited to find it – I couldn’t: Boston Blazers), but not before the Boston.com/Boston Globe ripped the team, as did one of my favorite blogs, Athletic Business via The Philadelphia Daily News. And one more thing….

Ironically, the National Lacrosse League lawyers pulled the YouTube event off the internet pretty darn quick.

That’s it, I now have nothing more…except…should a lawsuit be filed against the Boston Blazers, I cannot help but wonder if Alan Shore or Denny Crane would take the case for the happy mascot?