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Arizona Football Haka-Gate: New Zealanders and Fans Speak out

ZonaZealots wrote an article on the banning of the Haka for the Arizona football team defending the players and the program. Greg Byrne, New Zealanders and Fans spoke out.

Haka-Gate started last week when a woman in California started a petition to ban Arizona from traditionally performing the pre-game Haka and was successful. Our post in the Arizona Football Chat Group on Facebook received a lot of attention and some great discussion.

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After posting our Haka article on social media, we got a lot of fan reaction, mostly were sad and upset that anyone would think the team was performing the Haka out of maliciousness or not out of respect for their culture.