I feel that they should know better. It's well established that Washington did not invent it.

LunchTime said:

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I feel that they should know better. It's well established that Washington did not invent it.

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Why would anyone want to be associated with that anyway.

"While there is general disagreement about the precise origin of the wave, most stories of the phenomenon's origin suggest that the wave first started appearing at North American sporting events during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Krazy George Henderson perfected the wave at National Hockey League games, followed later by the earliest available video documentation of a wave, which he led on October 15, 1981, at a Major League Baseball game in Oakland, California.[2][3][4][5][6][7] This wave was broadcast on TV, and George has used a videotape of the event to bolster his claim as the inventor of the wave.[2][3] On October 31, 1981, a wave was created at a UW football game against Stanford at Husky Stadium in Seattle, and the cheer continued to appear during the rest of that year's football season.[5] Although the people who created the first wave in Seattle have acknowledged Krazy George's wave at a baseball stadium, they claimed to have popularized the phenomenon.

Krazy George believes that the wave originally was inspired by accident when he was leading cheers at an Edmonton Oilers National Hockey League game at Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. His routine was to have one side of the arena jump and cheer, then have the opposite side respond. One night in late 1980, there was a delayed response from one section of fans, leading to them jumping to their feet a few seconds later than the section beside them. The next section of fans followed suit, and the first wave circled Northlands Coliseum of its own accord.[8] In The Game of Our Lives, a 1981 book about the Oilers' 1980-81 season, journalist Peter Gzowski described this routine, which did not yet have a name but was already a standard in Krazy George's repertoire: "He will start a cheer in one corner and then roll it around the arena, with each section rising from its seat as it yells." Wikipedia

Mark Fox knows what he is talking about. Go Bears beat the Peppermints. Maybe Jelani Gardner will be there.

LunchTime said:

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I feel that they should know better. It's well established that Washington did not invent it.

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The A's did a directed one. UW did a front to back one. Cal did the first self-generating round the stadium one, ie the first true Wave at Big Game in CMS either 1980 or 1982.

oskidunker said:

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Mark Fox knows what he is talking about. Go Bears beat the Peppermints. Maybe Jelani Gardner will be there.

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That $30K, adjusted for inflation, is $50K, but it still only buys a PG that dribbles chest high and shoots bricks.

Crazy George was a regular at California Golden Seals hockey games at the Oakland Coliseum Arena in the early/mid '70's, as was I, but I don't remember whether there was a wave there. I do remember that there was a very bad hockey team wearing green and gold uniforms and widely ridiculed white skates like figure skaters.

It's Fox. They like making up stuff.

510 Bear said:

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It's Fox. They like making up stuff.

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I was thinking of making that joke because Fox sports wasn't sold to Disney, right?

But I couldn't word it well