Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Week 7 Saints vs Browns

It’s week 7 of the 2010 NFL season and the New Orleans Saints are 4-2. Last week’s impressive win against division foes the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was a nice change of pace for the Super Bowl Champions. Tampa Bay’s run defense which is ranked near the bottom of the league faltered early during the game. The Saints finally unleashed their rookie sensation running back Chris Ivory, a.k.a....

This blog article is about the chant and saying, Who dat?
Who dat? is a song and a chant of team support, used especially by fans of the New Orleans Saints, an American football team. The entire chant is: "Who dat? Who dat? Who dat say gonna beat dem Saints?" "Who dat" may also be used as a noun, describing a Saints fan.

Origins

The chant of "Who Dat?" originated in minstrel shows and vaudeville acts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was taken...

Instead of doing things piecemeal, i'll just put it all in big chunks, beginning with:

Sports
I heard it again last week on the NFL network, how Joe Namath and the Jets “made the oddsmakers look stupid.” From that afternoon in January 1969 through the present, every superbowl week, sportswriters poke fun at the bookies over Broadway Joe. For the most part, I have been quite proud that most of the folks in New Orleans, among just a handful of other places, know better. But...

Todd Ragusa of the Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Louisiana emailed us about a youth benefit raffle for 2010 Super Bowl Tickets. If you are interested in the raffle, please read the press release and information below.

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Margaret Dubuisson wrote Black and Gold today asking if we could help "get the word out" about the New Orleans Saints and Catholic Charities of New Orleans Super Bowl ticket raffle.

The press release read, "Rita Benson LeBlanc and the New Orleans Saints have donated an additional pair of tickets to Super Bowl XLIV to Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans to be raffled to raise money for the organization....