George Henderson
speaker
19 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Jul
George Henderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
We had the Olympics in 84 and I did a wave there and all the Mexican people saw it.
They took it back to Mexico and they started doing it there.
It was 1981.
It was a playoff game for the Oakland A's against the New York Yankees.
I had this cheer that I'd already been doing in small venues like high school rallies.
I knew what I wanted, but nobody had ever seen it before.
So I had to figure out to get 47,000 fans to know what I know.
So I organized three sections where I could actually scream loud enough to hear me.
And that third time I started it, it went all the way around the stadium, all three decks.
When I first invented it, I didn't have a name for it.
And somehow people just started to call it The Wave.
And it started to spread around the United States.
We had the Olympics in 84.
The LA Olympics, and I did a wave there, and all the Mexican people saw it.
They took it back to Mexico, and they started doing it there.
Now the World Cup comes to Mexico, and that was 1986.
Every venue in Mexico for soccer was doing the wave.
It does interconnect everybody in a common goal to show their support for their team.
It makes the fans feel like they're part of the game.
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