Video: Comedian Artie Lange on hockey, football announcing

The football side of this bit is funnier than the hockey side, but hearing the great Artie Lange reference both Bryan Trottier and Chico Resch while holding what appears to be a Jack and water is rather wonderful: Of course, Lange is overshadowed by Gary Dell'Abate when it comes to the New York Islanders and "The Howard Stern Show." (And it's rather tough to overshadow Artie Lange.) Baba Booey has been an Isles fan since 1974, and grew up in Uniondale. Which is probably why he had no problem with Jackie Martling threatening to take a dump inside the Devils' Cup back in 1995. By the way: The closer the XM/Sirius merger creeps to full approval, the better it is for hockey fans. XM Home Ice isn't a perfect creation, but it provides quality hockey talk on the radio in cities where it's easier to find a Korean polka channel than... [read full story]