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There are many varying stories on the origin of the wave - when sports fans stand and raise their arms, section by section, creating a wave like crest throughout an arena.
Competing claims for inventing the wave come from hockey, baseball, American football, and soccer, and from Canada, the US, and Mexico. The evidence does seem to indicate that the wave traveled primarily north to south, from its introduction at a 1980 hockey game in Edmonton, a cameo appearance at a baseball game in Oakland, a few years at Seattle football games, an Olympic appearance at Stanford University, and finally its big breakthrough at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, from which it emerged with global fame as the Mexican Wave.
According to professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson, the first wave was created by accident at an Edmonton Oilers hockey game. Different sections of the arena standing and cheering at different times was already somewhat common. Krazy George was pointing to different sections of the arena, which generally resulted in that section's fans jumping to their feet and shouting. A delayed reaction by one section one night was then followed by the next section jumping a few seconds later, initiating an impromptu wave. George refined the routine through season, and then took it to other games and stadiums, including a nationally televised Major League Baseball playoff game in Oakland between the A's and the New York Yankees on October 15, 1981.
Two weeks later Seattle fans began using the wave, first at a University of Washington football game, and then at the Seahawks' NFL games. The wave was introduced to soccer fans at a 1984 Olympic soccer match between Brazil and Italy at Stanford Stadium, before achieving global fame at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.
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Sometimes people at sporting events do the wave is this an example of a real wave?
No, the wave at sporting events is not an example of a real wave in nature. The wave at sporting events involves fans standing up and sitting down in sequence, creating a visual effect that travels around the stadium.
When did ' The Wave' first start at sporting events?
History is fuzzy about that but according to answers.com, the first recorded wave was at a NHL game in 1980.
Is 'the wave' in sporting events an offensive or defensive cheer?
Either. It simply supports the home team.
What do people do at sporting events that they don't do at Broadway shows?
yell drink beer eat snacks the wave
Which is not an example of a mechanical wave sunshine water waves at the beach fans doing the wave at a sporting event or sound waves coming out of a radio?
Sunshine is not an example of a mechanical wave. It is a form of electromagnetic radiation that does not require a medium to propagate, unlike mechanical waves which do.
Is a Mexican wave as seen among the crowds at some sporting events a transverse wave or a compression wave?
A Mexican wave is a physical phenomenon where people stand up and sit down in succession, creating a visible pattern moving around a stadium. It is not a wave in the physics sense; instead, it is a form of crowd participation and entertainment. There is no actual wave propagation like in transverse or compression waves.
Where did the new wave of expression in movies originate?
The New Wave style of expression originated in Europe.
Where did the New Wave style of expression in movies originate?
The New Wave style of expression originated in Europe.
Where did the Mexican wave originate?
It first started in the 1986 World cup in Mexico. Hence the Mexican wave
Where can I buy women's Mizuno wave nirvana running shoes?
You can purchase mizuno wave in stores or online. Many sporting goods stores like Dicks Sporting Goods usually carry many styles of this name brand in their stores.
What wave does not originate from the focus?
Surface waves do not originate from the focus. These waves are created when seismic energy reaches the Earth's surface and move horizontally along it, causing the ground to move in a rolling motion.
Where did the wave originate?
It first started in the 1986 World cup in Mexico. Hence the Mexican wave
