re: Salty Falcs fan tells us "What for" LOL

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Did "Who Dat" ever make it to LSU football? St Aug High definitely provided LSU with some football players

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No.
LSU has had traditions in place before the Saints existed.

No need for the who dat, thx.

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Fun fact: Who Dat was invented by St Aug fans who brought it to Saints games.

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Actually it’s from minstrel shows and was adopted by predominately black high schools at or around the same time, circa mid 70s or so.

That makes me feel warm inside and fills me with cheer, Atlanta can be wiped out in nuclear fire for all I care.

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But just understand that your team is not going to the playoffs and you and your city suck.

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Yup, the Aints won’t make the playoffs, that is a given. Betting the Failcons won’t either.

AND someone from the ATL telling other fans that their “city suck”, now that’s laughable! The ATL is the toilet of the South.

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i wish the person who made the meme was better at grammar...quicker THEN that? come on...

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It was crafted specifically to be understood by Falcons fans.

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I'm a history buff, so, facts like this fascinate me. Do you have any kind of link for us, so we can read more about it?

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From the New Yorker: (and a decent read)



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From wiki:

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"Who dat" became part of a chant for fans cheering on their favorite team. It has been debated exactly where it started, but some claim it began with Southern University Jaguars fans either in the late 1960s or early 1970s and went "Who dat talkin' 'bout beatin' dem Jags?"[11] Another claim is that it was connected with St. Augustine High School, a historically African-American all-boys Catholic high school in New Orleans.

A number of early football-related "who dat" references come from the Acadiana region, where Cajun English speakers influenced by French sometimes replace th sounds with d. One common theory is that the cheer originated at Patterson High School in Patterson, Louisiana, home of future Louisiana State University and Saints running back Dalton Hilliard).[7]

A 1979 article in the Morgan City Daily Review, previewing the Patterson Lumberjacks' appearance in the state championship game, noted that "you hear 'the who-dat' cheers by every 'Jack fan at all the games."[12][13] Patterson High fans were described as "the 'Who Dat' Club" and "Who Dats."[14][15]

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This is where the 1969 Mets come in, in the person of Ron Swoboda, who, after his great World Series catch, had gone on to host a “Monday Night Football” lead-in show on New Orleans’s WVUE. Early in the 1983 season, according to the Times-Picayune, one of the show’s reporters was on the St. Aug bus and “captured video of the team doing a raucous ‘Who Dat?’ chant”:

“I thought, ‘I love this cheer. We’ve got to play this a few times during the week,’ ” Swoboda said. “It started at Saints games not too long after that.”

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