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How one promoter accidentally started the stadium wave

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The most iconic crowd participation ritual was born entirely out of sheer desperation. In the early eighties, a professional hype-man tried to revive a completely dead stadium by forcing sections to stand up sequentially, accidentally creating a global sports virus.

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