Video: Arizona Football Teaches Us How to Haka

By D.J. Byrnes on August 22, 2014 at 12:47 pm
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"That tribal dance they do before rugby games in New Zeland" was the best I could surmise about haka, but I wasn't far off.

So what is Haka? From the tome of human knowledge, Wikipedia:

A haka (plural is the same as singular: haka) is a traditional ancestral war cry, dance or challenge from the Māori people of New Zealand. It is a posture dance performed by a group, with vigorous movements and stamping of the feet with rhythmically shouted accompaniment. The New Zealand rugby team's practice of performing a haka before their matches has made the dance more widely known around the world.

New Zealand's All-Blacks rugby team, are probably the most famous for it:

No disrespect to Urban Meyer and Mickey Marotti, but hell, that's a lot more intimidating than Quick Cals. 


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