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Since yesterday was Big Red Day.
It was at a game at the Hartford Civic Center in 1982. UConn trailed by a couple of points and coach Dom Perno called a timeout.
The UConn cheerleaders came out on the floor to lead the crowd in a cheer. Only nobody cheered.
“I felt so bad for the cheerleaders,” Tom Emery recalled, “I stood up and yelled, ‘Are you ready!?’ When I yelled it, a couple of sections went along with me and did it. And I didn’t even know what I was doing.”
It was at a game at the Hartford Civic Center in 1982. UConn trailed by a couple of points and coach Dom Perno called a timeout.
The UConn cheerleaders came out on the floor to lead the crowd in a cheer. Only nobody cheered.
“I felt so bad for the cheerleaders,” Tom Emery recalled, “I stood up and yelled, ‘Are you ready!?’ When I yelled it, a couple of sections went along with me and did it. And I didn’t even know what I was doing.”
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