Boston Cannons head coach Sean Quirk addresses his team. (James Cirrone)
The first weekend of June, New England finally got to experience what professional lacrosse is supposed to be all about.
It didn’t happen at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro — where the Premier Lacrosse League made its much-ballyhooed debut — but rather a 20-mile drive away, at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Quincy, Mass., where the Boston Cannons started their 19th season by finally coming of age.
That’s not a knock on the PLL, where fans witnessed some spectacular play and the potential for the future is inspiring, nor is it a dig at the Cannons’ past.
It’s simply that the team’s debut at their new home was a hometown and regional spectacle, an atmosphere that heretofore has been missing throughout Cannons history.
