The first episode of Wide World of Sports' Stories of Origin podcast will be released on Friday May 13. This story is taken from episode one, The Birth of Origin. Subscribe to Stories of Origin on Spotify, Apple, Google.


It's a call made famous by Billy Moore during the 1995 State of Origin series, and now Maroons legend Paul Vautin has revealed the full story behind the the birth of the 'Queenslander' war-cry eight years earlier.


Moore was captured yelling by Nine's cameras as the players returned from half-time at the Sydney Football Stadium in game one, 1995, yelling 'Queenslander' to fire up his teammates.

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