Oh come on!
As you may have heard, the NFL is claiming that it owns the rights to the term "Who Dat" and has ordered vendors in South Louisiana and other places to stop selling merchandise emblazoned with "Who Dat" on it. This, of course, is beyond ridiculous, not to mention just plain arrogant. This report from WWL in 1983 explains the origins of "Who Dat," and as you'll see, the NFL had no part in its creation. Assholes.
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It's downright ridiculous. I tried a couple of designs with a fleur de lis for the Breesus shirt and they were rejected because of the the NFL. Then I tried just uploading a generic fleur de lis and that got rejected. The fucking thing has been around since the first humans. Eat sack NFL.
Love it. Can I steal the pic? Hehe :)
I thought that the issue was also that they were using the Saints logo and colors too.
I thought the term was derivative of the local dialect. Aren't the "dats" along the industrial canal or something like that?
In the meantime CB guess you'll have to get a little "TM" tattooed on your arm and pay a fee to the NFL.
RJ
yeah....people are not too happy with the NFL for sure! one of the game days that i spent watching coverage all day there was a story claiming the "who dat" chant originated in Patterson, LA at Patterson High School when Dalton Hilliard played there in 78-79. so where was the NFL at that point? fuckers!
wait--they own the fucking fleur de lis now?? if they own "who dat" and the fleur de lis, then they own the fucking steroid issue, too, and katrina reparations, and...fuckers.
The Saints logo is the fleur de lis, which is also the symbol of the City of New Orleans, Bourbon France and has been in common use since time immemorial . . . the NFL (National Fuckwits League) has screwed with the WRONG FANBASE!!!
Folks down here are boiling mad and are e-mailing, calling the NFL (not to mention the usual NOLA methods of planning mad creative, elaborate revenge (which is best served with Crystal hot sauce - not cold).
If Roger Goodell thinks the Superdome is loud, - that's just a whisper of the sound and fury now heading his way from Southeast Louisiana . . . WHO DAT!
I thought it was a joke when I first heard about it. Sadly, no. Might be interesting to see how this plays out, New Orleans won't take this lying down. WHO DAT!!
@RJ...They're called "yats". And I was just thinking this morning about the tattoo and whether or not the NFL will send me a nice lawyerly letter threatening to sue me or something.
Thanks for the clarification.
Yats
Irish Channel.
RJ
Hi Cajun Boy,
You seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYvI_vtYeA8
My mother sat me down yesterday and told me a whole who dat routine they used to say as children. My mother is 86 years old and is from Pointe Coupee parish La. She also said that she wants a cut of whatever the NFL gets out of this.... She was really pissed.
Lynn
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