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It's been associated with the Saints as long as I can remember.
When I first went to NOLA in (I think) 1987 the Saints had a (rare) decent team and that was the crowd's chant. I think they made the playoffs that year. Anyway, we were there when the Saints won a playoff game or made the playoffs and that was the chant all through the quarter.
So it goes back at least that far, and I think it might've originated that year.
Wikipedia says the phrase dates back to minstrel shows and that it has been used in southern high schools/universities since the early 20th century. Far longer than the NFL has been around. And, probably the Saints.
STFU NFL.
That makes me want to go out and buy some off-brand Who Dat? merch. Though I'm not sure where I'd find it in Chicago.
Here we go:
Current Saints owner Tom Benson acquired the franchise in 1985, and hired Jim Finks as general manager and Jim Mora as head coach. That combination provided the Saints with their first-ever winning record and playoff appearance, going 12-3 in 1987, which had one fewer game than normal due to a players' strike.
Okay, it's older than '87 but I don't think Saints fans had much to chant about before then.
"WhoDat's gonna beat dem Saints?"
What colours were dinosaur feathers?
So far, the answer is orange, black and white in banded and other patterns.
I remember it as part of the "When the Saints Go Marching In" song during the era of Bum Phillips.
NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there — that is, if President Barack Obama gets his way.
When the White House releases his budget proposal Monday, there will be no money for the Constellation program that was supposed to return humans to the moon by 2020. The troubled and expensive Ares I rocket that was to replace the space shuttle to ferry humans to space will be gone, along with money for its bigger brother, the Ares V cargo rocket that was to launch the fuel and supplies needed to take humans back to the moon.
There will be no lunar landers, no moon bases, no Constellation program at all.
In their place, according to White House insiders, agency officials, industry executives and congressional sources familiar with Obama's long-awaited plans for the space agency, NASA will look at developing a new "heavy-lift" rocket that one day will take humans and robots to explore beyond low Earth orbit. But that day will be years — possibly even a decade or more — away.
"WhoDat's gonna beat dem Saints?"
I remember it from my time there, and my last NFL season in NOLA was '83. The Saints started out something like 7-1, and the line was "Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?" There was even a song that got some airplay.
The Saints ended up something like 8-8, and they missed the playoffs. Still, a vast improvement over the '80 team (my freshman year), which went 1-15 and inspired the bagheads.
The NFL very well may have trademarked it on the sly. Sometimes organizations will trademark stuff "just in case". However, if they have not defended the trademark previously, it weakens their case.