by Mark Malek

Normally, most people out there know that the NFL gets their panties in a knot if you were to use any of their trademarks.  For example, the NFL owns all the names and logos associated with each of the teams, as well as the name for that season ending football game that occurs on a Sunday – I didn’t want to write “Super Bowl” for fear of being sued by the NFL!  Everyone who’s anyone knows that “The Big Game” is going to happen in a couple of weeks from now and that it is going to be between the New Orleans Saints and the team that beat my beloved Jets (just out of spite, I’m not going to mention the name).

We all know what New Orleans went through in 2005.  Katrina was a terrible tragedy and the one thing that kept that city going was The Saints.  I never really followed The Saints, but since they did so great this year, I watched a couple of games.  I always saw people in the stands with signs on it that read “WHO DAT” and I would hear the likes of Drew Brees rally his team by chanting WHO DAT!  I had no idea what it meant.  I did some digging and asked some folks about it.  I used to work with someone that I consider to be the biggest Saints fan ever.  Apparently, there is a little war chant that they have in New Orleans – “Who Dat Say They Gonna Beat Dem Saints.”  That’s a great chant and very original.  In my opinion, it belongs to the people of New Orleans… not the NFL.  I’m glad that The Saints have made it to the Super Bowl.  New Orleans and its great citizens need this.

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