It is a bad allusion. I do not deny this. I am not defending its usage. The imagery is bad (both for being silly, and kind of disturbing in context), and the and the simile is not broadly accessible to its audience. That is bad writing.

How does ignorance of all sports satisfy the principle of parsimony more than knowledge of a particular sport? Rather than assuming he happened to be mistakenly accurate in a way you could not have predicted, it is, in fact, simpler to assume he was aware of the basic structure of Lacrosse; and Occam's Razor tells us…

That song is great, but it carries some unintentionally disturbing racial and Maoist overtones. It's like Strummer's saying, "You aren't a westerner! What are you even doing in a city? Go plow a field or something," without quite realizing it.

They began a slow, but strong slide into schlock after their second album, when they took some time off and their lead guitarist (and co-song-writer), Matt Sharp, left the band.

Lacrosse is played in four quarters, with a net and a goalie. Admittedly, this is little known (and only true of some forms of lacrosse), and thus a poor basis for a broad metaphor without explicit reference.