Where does the phrase commonly used at Saints Games,"who dat"? Come from? I see it all the time and I don't know who started it...does anyone else?
2006-09-26 02:01:12 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football (American)
It's just the way people there talk....I don't know if you have ever been to New orleans but its just a saying...it wasn't something just one player or fan started. It just kinda happened.
2006-09-28 01:39:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's a New Orleans term usually used in place of 'Who?, who's there? or what?' It's an acknowledging term.
Joe - Hey Ralph!
Ralph - Who dat? Oh, wuz up Joe!
That kind of way - the Saints use it like 'Who dat? Dat's the Saints!'
2006-09-26 10:45:42 · answer #2 · answered by TexasLSUTiger 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who's that-New orleans dialect-Who dat say they gonna beat dem Saints,who dat
2006-09-26 10:03:40 · answer #3 · answered by pdudenhefer 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"Who Dat" is just phonetics for "Who's that, that said they was gonna beat them Saints". South Louisiana with their French/Cajun culture has a unique way of speaking and/or saying things that is all their own. Just like Mardi Gras, mud-bugs, jazz, and gumbo...
"Who Dat? Who Dat said they was gonna beat them Saints?"
Apparently nobody!!!
2006-09-26 09:10:25 · answer #4 · answered by Ricardo C 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe it started with the Saints, in the Jim Mora days of the late '80s. It may have been a little self-deprecating, in that I think it started right around the time they had their first winning season. They'd finally had a winning team, so suddenly they were saying, "Who's gonna beat the Saints?" after so many years of losing.
Pretty cool chant, though.
2006-09-26 12:40:56 · answer #5 · answered by Lawn Jockey 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is a very regional phrase, but it was made kinda famous in the movie "The Waterboy" with Adam Sandler. When the Waterboy knocked the crap out of the SCLSU Muddogs QB. The QB was trying to get to his feet and kept saing, "Who dat?" Really funny.
2006-09-26 09:45:48 · answer #6 · answered by jtdupin 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I grew up in the south and that has been said at football games all the time.
2006-09-26 09:06:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it started as who dey from a cincinnati radio station yrs ago. saints fans did their own version of it.
2006-09-26 10:13:14 · answer #8 · answered by the greg 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Who DAT" originated in black/speak.
2006-09-26 10:07:29 · answer #9 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋