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by clorenz1 | October 26, 2006 at 03:34 pm
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"It's been really interesting," Krazy George said in a phone interview from his home in New Rochelle, N.Y. "I see it at the Olympics. There's a video of Fidel Castro doing it. If it had actually originated in New York at a Yankees game, they would have thought it was sent by the gods."
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at 04:23 on October 27th, 2006
For the sake of historical accuracy, the "Waving of the Wheat" done at KU football games after a score is not the rolling, arms up-arms down wave that travels around the stadium. Instead, KU students lift their arms and sway back and forth, simulating the wind blowing across Kansas' famous wheat fields. Kansas University students have been Waving the Wheat in celebration since long before the up and down wave that swept the world.