#RaiseTheCat: Sixers Success Spawns A Flurry of Cat Photos
PHILADELPHIA (CBS)--The Sixers success has inspired a crazy hashtag on Twitter: #RaiseTheCat
Related: #RaiseTheCat Live Blog
Fans who believe the Sixers are on the right track are celebrating the team by "raising the cat!".
ben simmons cat content for the #brand pic.twitter.com/VG58L6ieZo
— drew (@Dcorrigan50) November 16, 2016
If you're wondering where the hashtag came from -- its Ben Simmons, who wore his exotic cat on his head, inspiring the imitation.
It wasn't as easy as it looked -- so fans have just adjusted it to hoisting the cat up in the air.
Twitter user @GipperGrove took it from there, sending Twitter users into a frenzy.
"One day I decided that if they won the game, I would raise my 20-pound cat in the air and people enjoyed that," he tells CBS Philly. "This just proves that Sixers fans are the craziest fans in the NBA."
The @Sixers WIN! #RaiseTheCat pic.twitter.com/ZYW3D0O6PK
— Dennis (@GipperGrove) January 14, 2017
@GipperGrove Break up the Sixers! #RaiseTheCat #hotdogcat pic.twitter.com/Y09Q2wkYGA
— Dan McQuade (@dhm) January 14, 2017
@GipperGrove Here's a little gem for you... #RaiseTheCat pic.twitter.com/vXalIhUvmJ
— Shutterstock (@Shutterstock) January 19, 2017
THE @Sixers WIN! RAISE DAT CAT! @JoelEmbiid #RAISETHECAT #TrustTheProcess pic.twitter.com/osrvXByuab
— Catman & Carson (@Miller27Time) January 19, 2017
I'm home & im in! @GipperGrove @JeffMcDev #RaiseTheCat pic.twitter.com/3CQVdhL9IO
— Fox PHL Gambler.com (@Sean_Brace) January 19, 2017
@GipperGrove Raise the cat, everybody, for Philadelphia, Seventy-Sixers #RaiseTheCat pic.twitter.com/sznLGXrCGc
— Dan McQuade (@dhm) January 19, 2017
THE. @SIXERS. WIN.@JoelEmbiid IS THE GOAT
— Dennis (@GipperGrove) January 19, 2017
You know what to do, folks.
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