Editing Wave (audience) (section)

== Origins and variations ==
=== Krazy George Henderson ===
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[[File:Krazy George leads the crowd in a cheer 02.jpg|thumb|[[Krazy George Henderson|Krazy George]] cheering at a [[San Jose State University|San Jose State]] women's volleyball game, 2018]]
On November 15, 1979, the wave originated at a [[National Hockey League]] (NHL) game between the [[Colorado Rockies (NHL)|Colorado Rockies]] and [[Montreal Canadiens]] at [[McNichols Sports Arena]] in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]].<ref name="McNichols Sports Arena 1979">{{cite web|title=Who knew? Turns out Colorado was the birthplace of 'The Wave'|url=https://thehockeynews.com/news/who-knew-turns-out-colorado-was-the-birthplace-of-the-wave|publisher=The Hockey News|date=28 March 2015|access-date=25 November 2022|archive-date=25 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125162720/https://thehockeynews.com/news/who-knew-turns-out-colorado-was-the-birthplace-of-the-wave|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=NFL game between Colorado Rockies and Montreal Canadiens (15 November 1979)|url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/boxscores/197911150CLR.html|publisher=hockey-reference.com|date=25 November 2022|access-date=25 November 2022}}</ref>

[[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.<ref name="oilers">{{cite news|last1=Hingston|first1=Michael|title=Surf's Up: As the Edmonton Oilers leave their arena, few remember it was where sports fandom's greatest achievement—the Wave—was perfected|url=http://thewalrus.ca/surfs-up/|access-date=April 13, 2016|work=The Walrus|date=April 6, 2016|archive-date=April 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410134429/http://thewalrus.ca/surfs-up/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=video>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sqGxQoORYE |title=The First Wave - Documentation - A's Highlight Video - 1981 |website=[[YouTube]] |date=12 August 2014 |access-date=2016-12-02 |archive-date=2016-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416221908/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sqGxQoORYE |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Allen-Price|first1=Olivia|title=The Wave Was Born in Oakland, and Some Giants Fans Want It Dead|url=http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/21/the-wave-was-born-in-oakland-and-some-giants-fans-want-it-dead|website=KQED News|publisher=KQED|access-date=23 July 2015|ref=KQED|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723132732/http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/21/the-wave-was-born-in-oakland-and-some-giants-fans-want-it-dead|archive-date=23 July 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="washingtonpost.com">[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/25/AR2006102501477.html 'Krazy' Inventor of the Wave Celebrates] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170408104347/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/25/AR2006102501477.html |date=2017-04-08 }}, JANIE McCAULEY, ''The Washington Post''</ref><ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928140623/http://www.thewavemagazine.com/printarticle.php?articleid=24131 Somebody’s GOTTA Do It: Celebrating the Bay Area’s Under-appreciated Jobs]}}, Jimmy Christopher, ''The Wave Magazine'' (retrieved 22 August 2010 at [[Internet Archive Wayback Machine]])</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.latimes.com/sports/college/football/la-sp-tuebriefing17oct17,1,2608019.story?coll=la-headlines-sports-coll_footb | work=Los Angeles Times | first=Mike | last=Penner | title=USC taps its inner Green Monster | date=17 October 2006}}</ref> 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.<ref name="oilers"/><ref name=video/> On October 31, [[1981 Washington Huskies football team|1981]], a wave was created at a [[University of Washington]] [[American football|football]] game against [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] at [[Husky Stadium]] in [[Seattle]], and the cheer continued to appear during the rest of that year's football season.<ref name="washingtonpost.com"/> Although the people who created the first wave in Seattle have acknowledged Henderson's wave at a baseball stadium, they claimed to have popularized the phenomenon.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

Henderson believes that the wave originally was inspired by accident when he was leading cheers at a Colorado Rockies [[National Hockey League]] game at [[McNichols Sports Arena]] in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], in 1979.<ref name="McNichols Sports Arena 1979"/> His routine was to have one side of the arena jump and cheer, then have the opposite side respond. One night in late 1979, 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 McNichols Arena of its own accord. In ''The Game of Our Lives'', a 1981 book about the [[1980–81 Edmonton Oilers season|Oilers' 1980-81 season]], journalist [[Peter Gzowski]] described this routine, which did not yet have a name but was already a standard in Henderson'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."<ref name="oilers"/>

=== University of Washington ===
[[Robb Weller]], a cheerleader at the [[University of Washington]] from 1968 to 1972 and later co-host of the television show ''[[Entertainment Tonight]]'', indicated in September 1984 that the school's early 1970s cheerleading squad developed a version of the wave that went from the bottom to top, instead of side to side, as a result of difficulties in getting the generally [[inebriated]] college audience members to timely raise and lower cards: <blockquote>Actually ...there were two Waves. I was a cheerleader at the University of Washington from 1968 to 1972 when we started the first Wave. We tried to have card tricks but the kids would imbibe too much and the card tricks would get all goofed up; then we'd try card tricks with the kids using their bodies as cards and that wouldn't work. Finally we tried a Wave in the student section and it caught on but that Wave was different from this Wave. It would go from the bottom to top instead of side to side.<ref>{{Citation |author= Michael Madden |date= September 30, 1984 |title= Michael Madden From Sea to Shining Sea, the Wave of the Future is Now |work= [[Boston Globe]] }}</ref> </blockquote>The first wave at the [[University of Washington]]'s [[Husky Stadium]] occurred on [[Halloween]] [[1981 Washington Huskies football team|1981]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gohuskies.collegesports.com/trads/020498aad.html |title=University of Washington - Official Athletic Site :: Traditions |publisher=Gohuskies.collegesports.com |date=1981-10-31 |access-date=2010-06-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060325170555/http://gohuskies.collegesports.com/trads/020498aad.html |archive-date=2006-03-25 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://static.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls01/s/holiday_uwhistory.html |title=The Purple Haze |publisher=Static.espn.go.com |access-date=2010-06-09 |archive-date=2011-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111117090436/http://static.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls01/s/holiday_uwhistory.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="lmtapfc">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=M4tfAAAAIBAJ&pg=4897%2C2175025 |newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |agency=Associated Press |last=Bock |first=Hal |title=Washington gets final credit for inventing 'The Wave' |date=November 7, 1984 |page=3C |access-date=October 4, 2020}}</ref> at the prompting of Dave Hunter (Husky band trumpet player) and the visiting alumni cheerleader Weller.<ref>{{Citation |author= George Vescey |date= October 6, 1984 |title= Sports of the Times; Permanent Wave in Motown |work= [[New York Times]] |page=121 }}</ref> In 1982 Husky head coach [[Don James (American football)|Don James]] pointed to crowd noise from the wave as a competitive advantage when playing home games at Husky Stadium.<ref name="DonJamesTheWave">{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Jack |date=November 9, 1982 |title=Dawgs dig in for Sun Devil blitz |newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |page=B2 |quote=[Don] James also applauded the crowd at Husky Stadium: "We got a big lift from the crowd," be said. "The fact that Husky Stadium has a reputation as a tough place to play the last few years has really shown the last few games with things like the Wave yell."}}</ref>

The wave had been picked up by fans at the nearby [[Kingdome]] prior to the [[Seattle Seahawks]]' first playoff appearance in [[1983 Seattle Seahawks season|1983]].<ref name="Kingdome1983">{{cite news |last=Barber |first=Michael A. |date=December 19, 1983 |title=First-rate reason to party: Seahawks in the playoffs |newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |pages=A1, A3 |quote=They were part of The Wave yesterday, that unique Seahawk expression of fan unity – a spontaneous cheer that sweeps over the crowd as they stand and yell in unintelligible tongues for, each one believes, "my" football team. [...] There's also The Wave. No one has figured out what triggered this phenomenon of football. It begins as a roar in one end of the stadium and continues around, as each section of fans fumes up and yells to keep The Wave going. No one has figured out what all those people say when they yell, either. It is nothing intelligible. They just scream their hearts out.}}</ref>

=== University of Michigan ===
In the early fall of [[1983 Michigan Wolverines football team|1983]], the [[Michigan Wolverines football|Michigan Wolverines]] played the Huskies in Seattle and brought the wave back to [[Michigan Stadium]] in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan|Ann Arbor]]. A letter to the sports editor of ''[[The New York Times]]'' claimed,<ref>{{cite news |title=Don't Take My Wave Away |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1984-07-08 |page=Late City Final Edition, Section 5, Page 2, Column 5 }}</ref> "There are three reasons why the wave caught on at Michigan Wolverine games: It gave the fans something to do when the team was leading its opponent by 40 points, it was thrilling and exciting to see 105,000 people in the stands moving and cheering, and [[Bo Schembechler]] asked us not to do it." The fans responded to his request by doing more waves, including "Silent Waves" (standing and waving arms without cheering), "Shsh Waves" (replacing the cheering with a "shshing" sound), the "Fast Wave", the "Slow Wave", and two simultaneous waves traveling in opposite directions. The following spring, fans who had enjoyed the wave in Ann Arbor introduced it to the nearby [[Tiger Stadium (Detroit)|Tiger Stadium]] in [[Detroit]]. The [[Detroit Tigers|Tigers]] won baseball's [[1984 World Series|World Series that year]] and appeared on many televised games throughout 1984, so people all over the US saw it.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

=== Mexican Wave ===
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On September 18, 1984, in the Monterrey metro area suburb of San Nicolas de los Garza, at the Estadio Universitario, the Mexican national team played a friendly match against Argentina, ending in a 1-1 draw. The wave was being done by college students who had learned the celebrations during college football matches. Former Mexico head coach Bora Milutinovic confessed that everytime he visited another stadium around the world he always thought of the fans in Monterrey: "We played the unforgettable match against Argentina 1-1, when that famous 'Wave' began. Now, when I am in stadiums around the world and I see 'waves' where people express their joy at seeing good football, it always reminds me of the fans of the north."