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Who Invented the Sporting "Mexican" Wave? (2016x43)

Air date: Feb 29, 2016

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundO→“Mexican wave” outside of the United States, was the brain-child of the longest continuously active professional cheerleader (41 years and counting), Krazy George Henderson, in the late 1970s. It made its national debut on October 15, 1981 in a playoff game between the Oakland Athletics and the New York Yankees, which the Yankees won 4-0, eliminating the A’s. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/07/wave-started/ Sources: http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/fandom/post/_/id/18888/its-settled-where-the-wave-first-started http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/25/AR2006102501477.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_%28audience%29 http://web.archive.org/web/20070928140623/http://www.thewavemagazine.com/printarticle.php?articleid=24131 http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/September-October-08/On-this-Day--Krazy-George-Leads-First-Crowd-Wave.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2253747.stm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_George_Henderson http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/fandom/post/_/id/18888/its-settled-where-the-wave-first-started http://www.krazygeorge.com/wave.html