For the first time in almost a year, Arizona Stadium may witness the Wildcats football team take part in the prominent Ka Mate Haka dance that was prohibited last October for the team performing it wrong.
Dr. Christina Campbell from Cal-State, Northridge released a petition last year claiming the Wildcats did the dance “poorly” and offended many of the New Zealand natives. After the famous Polynesian dance was banned as a pre-game tradition, Vice President of Athletics Greg Byrne provided defensive lineman Sani Fuimaono two options: Either teach the entire team mid-season how to properly Haka or scrap it and create a Wildcat version of it.