There's an argument to be made Kenny Albert is the busiest play-by-play announcer in the industry.
Albert is the No. 2 voice on NBC's NHL coverage, calls NFL and MLB games for Fox, is the lead voice of the New York Rangers and regularly calls New York Knicks games, in addition to mixing in some boxing and Olympic hockey. You know, when he has some spare time.
In 2009, Albert famously worked four sports in four days: he broadcast a Vikings-Steelers game for Fox on a Sunday afternoon, then pitched in on Fox's coverage of the New York Yankees' ALCS victory celebration that night. He then called a Rangers game on radio three days later, then led the TV broadcast of the Knicks' opener a night after that.
In one 8-week stretch in April and May of 2015, Albert was on the air 44 of 55 days.
So when the guy actually does get some free time... he goes right back on the air.
Albert will volunteer his services to call a web stream of a pair of 1-5 New Jersey high school teams on Thursday night.
“It’ll be a lot of fun,” Albert told NorthJersey.com.
Albert's daughter attends Northern Valley Regional High School in Demarest, N.J., and he gave the school's athletics director a standing offer to call any football games that happened to fall on a Thursday night. The school usually streams its games with no audio other than what its cameras happen to pick up from the public address.
So, with a Northern Valley game on Thursday night, Albert will call Northern Valley vs. Dumont on Thursday and Steelers vs. Bengals on Sunday.
With no baseball out of season and basketball and hockey still in their COVID-adjusted off-seasons, Albert will officially become the most overqualified high school football announcer in broadcasting history.