Talk:Krazy George Henderson
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There is significant and cited dispute on whether Krazy George Henderson really did invent the wave. See Audience wave for more details. None of this dispute is listed here, though, which is why I added the disputed tag.
- Did you read this paragraph?
- In the summer of 2000, supporters of the University of Washington demanded that Krazy George's website be taken down, as they claimed to have invented the wave at their homecoming game against Stanford University in 1981. However, as that game took place on October 31, more than two weeks after the A's/Yankees game, Krazy George has refused to remove his site, and continues to claim the invention of the wave.
- Gentgeen 22:15, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
- Heh. That'll teach me to add tags before my morning tea. Thanks for clearing that up. --Yamla 22:35, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
That kind of wikipedian cooperation and admittance of fault warms the cocles (is it cocles? cockles?) of my heart. Wikipedia rocks.
I think it is really important that this article doesn't ever say things like "Krazy George invented "the wave" or "then the first wave circled the stadium". We can say that Krazy George is "often credited as the inventor of the wave", but it is important to always qualify this statement as things like "the wave" almost NEVER actually have a single inventor, but rather have people who popularize them.
Krazy George claims to be the inventor of the "the wave". He first used it as part of his cheerleading routine on October 15, 1981, while at a nationally televised Oakland Athletics American League Championship Series game against the New York Yankees.
My first MLB game was at Oakland vs. the Rangers on Labor Day, 1981. The wave had been in play all season, and we did it at that game, so while it doesn't dispute Krazy George as the originator of it, October 15th was most certainly not the first date it was done. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.48.55.83 (talk) 22:28, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
GEORGE IS CORRECT:
I think George is being a bit to modest. I went to college with him at San Jose City College 1965-1966. He played that stupid drum at all the football games at Spartan Stadium. He'd get one section to stand up raising their arms in the air, then get the opposite side to do the same. Then it would go around the stadium one section at a time. And it finally lead to one continuous "wave". But at that time we didn't call it the "Wave". In fact we didn't call it anything. It just happened when ever George was there. So I can personally vouch for his being the inventor of the wave. I'm sure there are other alumni from the same period who could vouch for this fact. Signed J Hess, San Jose, Ca.118.173.83.113 (talk) 09:27, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Crazy George's Bar edit
"Krazy" George Henderson opened a bar called "Krazy's" in Aptos, CA which is near to Santa Cruz, CA, where his cheerleading career started (at UCSC).
[i think this should be mentioned in the article - but my coding skills are woefully inadequate! 😞] Jd.varner44 (talk) 21:35, 26 July 2018 (UTC)