so i saw this mentioned in another thread and just thought it needed discussion b/c it is one of my pet peeves


the wave is for a sporting event like baseball or soccer where you need something to watch b/c the action on the field is so slow. it does not have a place at football games. when a wave gets going, people watch the wave instead of the game, which is fucked.

my short and sweet $0.02

10/6/2006 10:59:48 AM

i agree

but to be fair it happened during extended timeouts, so it was the wave or whatever shitty commercial they had on the screen

10/6/2006 11:00:50 AM

the wave was always stopped when the play clock started, it was pretty cool goin through the student section but then the alumni killed it.

10/6/2006 11:36:12 AM

ahaha the funniest part was when the wave stopped people booed, and someone started yelling "god damnit you people will boo at anything"

10/6/2006 12:00:58 PM

^i know right . . . stupid old people

10/6/2006 12:01:19 PM

the old people ruin EVERYTHING

10/6/2006 12:41:54 PM

that was awful! We tried to do a wave 20 times and the alumni couldn't do it ONCE!?

10/6/2006 1:38:31 PM

i was in section 30 and i never noticed a wave... i stayed in my seat the whole time, even during halftime and i never noticed a wave getting started. so it must have been pretty shitty

10/6/2006 3:37:48 PM

The wave sucks. People try to do it at hockey games during play. FUCK THOSE PEOPLE.

10/6/2006 3:47:00 PM

ditto. the worst is the one drunk old guy in the front of the section tryna be a cheerleader

10/6/2006 3:50:04 PM

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"the wave is for a sporting event like baseball or soccer where you need something to watch b/c the action on the field is so slow. it does not have a place at football games. when a wave gets going, people watch the wave instead of the game, which is fucked."

you make no sense, the students started the wave only during timeouts... it never overlapped into the game...

10/6/2006 3:51:28 PM

the student section did look realllly good and synchronized towards the end of it

10/6/2006 3:53:00 PM

bttt


Here is an article about the Wave that I just found. I thought you might find it interesting...

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"Krazy George celebrates starting the Wave cheer 25 years ago By JANIE McCAULEY, AP Sports Writer October 25, 2006 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Krazy George Henderson has spent the last quarter-century trying to persuade everyone that he debuted the "Wave" during an Oakland Athletics' playoff game against the Yankees -- not those Washington football fans who claim the Huskies first performed the now famous cheer. Debate aside, the Wave is 25 years old and still going strong. Wisconsin football fans did the wave at a game in September. (Getty Images) "It's been really interesting," Krazy George said in a phone interview from his home in New Rochelle, N.Y. "I see it at the Olympics. There's a video of Fidel Castro doing it. If it had actually originated in New York at a Yankees game, they would have thought it was sent by the gods." Krazy George, now 62, says he spent three years perfecting the Wave. He first pulled off the move -- in which fans take turns, by section, standing up and waving their arms -- on Oct. 15, 1981, at the Yankees-A's AL championship series game in the Coliseum. Washington, meanwhile, did it two weeks later, on Oct. 31. Former Husky yell leader Robb Weller had returned to campus for a homecoming game against Stanford. He began a vertical version of the Wave in the '70s, but first did the horizontal Wave that day. Officials at Washington acknowledge Krazy George as being first, but what they are certain of is that the Huskies popularized the cheer. It soon caught on at a Seattle Seahawks game, too. It took a year and a half, according to Krazy George, for the Huskies to fess up that they'd seen the Wave on television and given it their own twist. Good thing, too, because he has the proof on tape: The Wave was part of the A's 1981 highlight video shown to potential season ticket holders for the following year. "That's the best-kept lie in the last 25 years. But now, most of the world recognizes me," Krazy George said. "Their theory is that they came up with it in 30 seconds! 'Oh, we just thought it up.' "They kept doing it the whole football season and of course they were a big national football power with a big budget. I tell everyone to call Seattle and get their side of the story. It's like a war with me." Krazy George, known best by that name and for pounding his drum in stadiums across the United States, is a California native who moved north to Napa from Southern California at age 17. He left for New York three years ago. A former high school shop teacher, Krazy George's lone job the last 30 years has been as a for-hire cheerleader -- working all of about three hours a week. Yes, that's it. He averages one game every seven days. In that first Wave game, the Yankees eliminated the A's 4-0 to reach the World Series. Dave Righetti, now the San Francisco Giants' pitching coach, was the winning pitcher. A crowd of 47,302 was on hand for the first Wave. "We put it on the map in 1981," said Shooty Babitt, a rookie on the '81 A's. "A lot of people wish the Wave would go away now. A lot of people don't understand when you should do it. ... The new-age fan doesn't understand where the Wave originated. But Krazy George still looks the same today as he did 25 years ago." Krazy George is a well-known figure at sporting venues, especially in the Bay Area. Mostly bald with blond curls above his ears, he wears his striped athletic socks pulled up and always has a drum in hand. He has been featured in national magazines and TV programs and has several upcoming interviews with international publications. That game in Oakland was the biggest crowd yet for Krazy George, who had tried the cheer a couple of times at high school rallies. A simpler version originated at San Jose State several years earlier. Krazy George would call for the three student sections to chant -- one word for each group -- "San!" "Jose!" "State!" He would point to each section signaling those students' turn. He also did something similar for the former Colorado Rockies hockey team, using "Go! Rockies! Go!" But it didn't work so well with only 5,000 fans in the seats many nights. He knows there are plenty of fans out there who refuse to participate or become grumpy when their view of the game gets briefly blocked. "There are always a few people," he said. So, in an era when fads tend to fade quickly in sports, fashion and technology, why has the Wave stood the test of time? "As a professional cheerleader, I know why I do it: What it does is intensify the energy of the crowd," Krazy George said. "It's almost like an accomplishment. It's their own competition, like a contest or video game. You have to participate to make it work. It takes 95 percent of fans doing it to make it great." Krazy George says he last got into it with Washington about the Wave before the 20th anniversary. Over the years, he has called the university's athletic director and president, not to mention newspapers and TV stations. The way things are going, the Wave will carry on long enough for the lore to continue. "You can start a wave but nobody can stop one," Krazy George said. "The only way it stops is if something exciting happens on the field." "

10/26/2006 7:00:20 PM

anybody who participates in "the wave" should be executed

that is all

10/26/2006 7:51:52 PM

the wave sucks and is played out. it has no place at a football game

10/26/2006 8:19:07 PM

who cares

10/26/2006 11:24:04 PM

You guys are crazy. There was an awesome wave going for our bowl game last year. Lasted a very long time. The game was boring as fuck.

10/26/2006 11:29:33 PM

damn lou, take it easy

there are worse things

10/27/2006 4:12:18 AM

The wave should be replaced by fans SCREAMING on defense

10/27/2006 8:09:47 AM

this thread should be replaced by people not whining about something so trivial.

10/27/2006 8:26:04 AM