(Aikman said the game wasn't close if not for the Vikings' turnovers!)
But they (Vikings) still lost & having high turn overs means that they were inferior athletes. The Saints have the Superior team. DEAL WITH IT!
(Joe Buck SUCKS it!)
After the Saint beat the Vikings and Favre limped off the field like an awkward ballerina(pants on the ground along with the Vikings), the media and sore loosing Viking fans and pretty much most of the NFL management have been on an unending attack of cruelness and stupidity. Anyone who watched the Saints-Vs-Vikings Game could clearly see that the NFL machine was favoring the Vikings. With the constant firing of back handed comments being made against the Nawlins Saints by , Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, one would have to wonder if these two didn't have their children's college fund being held by a New Jersey Mafia Betting Shark! I mean, I have never heard such mean spirited and blatant biased against a NFL foot ball team, since I started watching the game! It was pathetic.
(The NFL fined Saints DE Bobby McCray a total of $20000 for two incidents but it is strange that the NFL can not seem to rein in their own corruption and the corruption of its own management.)
All one heard from Buck & Aikman, the entire Saints-Vikings' Game, were nasty comments like,"The Saints can't run" "The Saints can not even gain any yards" "The Saints are just lucky" "If it wouldn't be for luck then the Saints would have not been able to do such & such" I mean really? And I am expected to believe that these 2 NFL Announcers didn't have bets on the game? Laughable!
Did Favre "Blow" Buck and Aikman before the game? Because they were on his jock harder than Kim Kardashian is back on R. Bush! It was embarrassing!
It feels like every week, there is some agency, group, person, ignorant Viking fans, media outlet that is attacking the people of Louisiana. We are constantly having to defend our reputations, image, homes, land, culture, people and now we gotta defend a term dating back to the 1700's in La. state? I realize that Americans are historically challenged, so allow me to give "yall" a lesson in Louisiana sayings and cultural terms.
NFL Spokesperson, Greg Aiello, sent out cease and desist letters, to local shops, that sell any "Who Dat" Gear, in an effort at intimidation and a shocking act of ole fashion Corporate American greed! New Orleans has been selling "Who Dat" gear, since before Greg Aiello was born!
The management at the New Orleans Saints aren't innocent bystanders in this mess. They registered the term "Who Dat," 3 years ago, even though it predates them, allowing this frivolous NFL fight over the "Who Dat" term. Truth be told, all those idiots had to do was have the term "Who Dat" registered by the City of New Orleans or a La. Preservation Society. The NFL has their logo and symbol for the NOLA Saints but the term "Who Dat" BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE!
3 years ago, the Corporate Fat Cats, over at NOLA Saints' Management, said "We want to take the "Who Dat" from the fans and profit off of its use, so lets work with the NFL to steal everything belonging to the "Who Dat" Nation!" "We (Saints Management) will register for official legal control over the term "Who Dat" and establish control, on not just the NFL Saints Logo, but also on the "Who Dat" term." So, Corporate Management is set to make a huge profit while fans and small business owners, get sued in court!
What the Saints' Management did was commit fraud and the NFL is trying to not mix the profits of the Managers, over at the New Orleans Saints, with their NFL logo rights. The NFL is wrong but the Managers over at the Saints are worse. As a literary manger, who knows plenty about copy-writing and trademark laws, I can say that for the Saints Managers to seek out exclusive control of the "Who Dat" term, is like me getting a new script, from a client, not written by me and going to the Writers Guild of America (with a wink and nod) and registering my client's script under my name. That's fraud. I understand the legalities on how to cheat the system, to obtain ill gotten gains, but my mind doesn't even work like that!
When a person or organization registers anything at a copy right or trade mark office, they assume that your acting with integrity but I guess that would be too much to ask, of some crooks, who are already very rich!
The Management, over in the Saints board room, had to agree on a lie, stating that NO WHERE IN LA. STATE was the term "Who Dat" ever found prior to 2006! Next they would have had to also agree to lie and say that some of them, were flying a kite in Kenner,La. and out of the blue, the term "Who Dat" popped up in their head and that they (the Saints board room) came up with the term and therefore had a claim on the merchandising and marketing rights of "Who Dat!" I couldn't even lie that horrendously, even if I tried!
People complain about athletes & actors being "over paid" but they fail to realize that someone (CEO's, Producers, Sports Owners & Managers) signs the athlete's pay checks, from their business account, and management always appears to never get called out!
The NFL Nets about 8 BILLION dollars per year and the OWNERS of sport teams, make close to 1 Billion but as soon as an athlete, who has the body of a 60 year old man at the age of 30 from taking hits and training, gets 40 million, people yell, "THATS TOO MUCH OF MONEY FOR THE ATHLETE!" It is simple ignorance, on the public's part being that the Athlete is only getting a very, very, very small percentage of what their bosses "take home" in profits, off of the athlete's talent! This is the same thing that steams me when the media highlights an actor's pay on a sitcom but never the t.v. producer's or studio's billion dollar profits.
My point is the NFL and SAINTS's management, already are rolling around in a great deal of wealth and the trade-marketing of the "Who Dat" is nothing more than sinful GREED on the part of the NFL and owners of the New Orleans' Saints!
Let me be real clear on this. The Saints did nothing wrong BUT THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SAINTS, LIKE ALL OTHER CORPORATE SPORTS MANAGEMENT FAT CATS, SIT AROUND ON THEIR BUTTS AND THINK OF NEW WAYS TO INCREASE THEIR BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. The Saints Management should step-up and tell the NFL that suing people in NOLA, for doing what they have been doing for decades, is misguided and wrong! And release the rights, which they reserved, under fraud.
The NFL is saying that they aren't trying to control the "Who Dat" term.....just as long as you don't wear a black t-shirt.....or have any gold on your t-shirt......or have the word "Saints" anywhere on it........or have any form or shape of a football helmet on the T-shirt! Well, can we even think the term "Who Dat" without the NFL hauling us into court and trying to shake us down?
Darren Dixon, a St. Augustine graduate, from the class of 1980, confirms that the chant "Who Dat" was being said around NOLA school games, dating back to 1978 & 1979.
Well, let me just move this argument from present day New Orleans and trace the La. "broken" French origins of the saying "Who Dat."
"Who Dat?" was around Louisiana in the 1700's, being spoken in La. state, as the broken French word "Ain?" Why don't the crooks over in the Saints Board Room & NFL, just trademark the words "Hello" and "Good bye" since they are reading from the Hitler Book of Nazism?
Now to add insult to injury, the NFL, is trying to ban Saints fans, from showing our team spirit with our beloved and very unique Louisianian "Who Dat!" Louisianians have not only recorded songs about "Who Dat Say they Gonna Beat Dem Saints" for the past 30 years but the term is also rooted in La. culture and lingo, dating back to even the late 1700's.
I can recall a time, last year, when I over heard a NY Times Cross Word Puzzle Writer trying to figure out, along with a L.A. Times Cross Word Puzzle Writer; a Crossword Puzzle Clue, in the Baton Rouge Advocate, asking,"What are people from New Orleans called? " These people created Crossword puzzles for a living and couldn't figure it out! I couldn't resist and said, "People from New Orleans are called Who Dats!" I have never figured out a cross word clue in my life but I knew that one! These two writers weren't dumb but they WERE ignorant and I think that the NFL saying that Saints Fans can not wear their Saints Gear is also IGNORANT! They don't know people from La. if they think that anyone is trying to listen to their stupidity.
(The Baton Rouge Cross Word Puzzle was composed by one of my current friends, Levi D., from Baton Rouge. See, people from La. know our culture and just because someone from the NFL or N.Y. is ignorant doesn't mean that our culture doesn't exist.)
"People can take everything away from you but they can never take away your truth." Britney Spears. Kentwood,La.
"Who Dat" can be traced back to Creole/Cajun French Speaking La. ranging from the 1600's to the 1800's with the term "Qui Etes-Vous?" or "Who Are you?" but being that some of the French speaking population, weren't educated in standard French, the "proper" French term was translated into the word "Ain?"-which simply means "Who is that & what did you say?" Yes, that little word, meant "Who Dat" even back in 1700 & 1800's French dominated Louisiana due to the Creole-Cajun-ization of the French settlers.
Then upon the large arrival of the Africans and migration of Anglo settlers, the Africans spoke a very broken English and one heard "Who Dat Be?" up until the 1920's or 1930's in New Orleans. Then around the 1960's and 1970's, the weed smoking, Civil Rights/ Vietnam generation simply stated "Who Dat?" This "Who Dat" term was common around New Orleans and even more common around the Louisiana country side among La. Blacks, Creoles of Color, Cajuns and newly arrived poor Europeans. All of my grandparents in Louisiana (Black, White and Creole) ALL said "Who Dat!" This trademarking mess of "Who Dat" is a joke! I mean, every one of my cousins in New Orleans said "Who Dat" growing up! They didn't even have to be at a Saints game! "Who Dat" is uniquely Louisiana lingo, first and foremost. The fans brought their culture and channeled it into a Battle Cry!
The "Who Dat" term was then heard around NOLA High School games as a spirit chant. NOLA's St. Augustine High School, home to some of the best student musicians in the world, frequently had parents, students and fans chanting this term. These same NOLA high school foot ball fans, would eventually bring this to the Super-dome audience in the early 80's, and New Orleans saw a cultural explosion of "Who Dat" Spirit Songs like the "Saints Go All the Way (I Believe)" song sung by Angela Bell & written by Harrison Avenue and rotated on every radio station in New Orleans during the early 1980's, even had "Who Dat" remixes because the term was so common among Saints fans in the 80's.
The attempted trade marketing of the New Orleans "Who Dat" is ignorant, absurd and it's a throw back to slavery, where some idiots, think that they can trademark this magical term and steal it from the historic lingo, which makes up Louisiana's unique collage of gumbo and color! It is simply sad and outrageous!
We already have CNN saying that New York was the birth place of New Orleans jazz and now they want to come into our city, which was here before there was an America and steal our history? This has to be a joke.
We gonna keep saying "Who Dat" because it is a gumbo of people, that made New Orleans the most cosmopolitan city, while other colonies were eating Native Americans and each other! New Orleans and the "Who Dat" Nation of people from many Nations, were here before you and "Who Dat" will be here long after-wards and forever!
I guess next Emeril Lagasse, is going to trade mark & copy right "Gumbo" and Louisiana will have to pay him a fee for making a food that was in North America before hamburgers and Apple pie!
What you people ( Saints Management & NFL) can do for us, is Trade Mark the term "Kiss Our Ass" and then proceed to do just that!
I would like to thank, CNN's Don Lemon (native of Louisiana) for making an effort to provide the historical roots of "Who Dat" in Louisiana state, today on nation wide television! Bout time he did something right! GEAUX DON!!!!
I will be buying about 1,000 of David Vitter's "Who Dat" shirts! It isn't often that you see (R) Senator David Vitter and CNN's, Don Lemon, both upset and on the same side of an issue! Bout time David Vitter got an issue right! GEAUX VITTER!!
GEAUX SAINTS!! AND WHO DAT, WHO DAT, WHO "Motha Fuckin" DAT!!!!!!!!!...BITCH!
WHO DAT!! Go Get Your Own Culture And Leave Ours The Hell Alone!!! Cool? Bon!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEkJ5CEhKos
N. DuPlessis