Who Dey? For The SuperBowl It’s Who Dat!
As some of you are aware I’m the member of the team most recently relocated to the city. My wife and I came up here last Spring from New Orleans and rapidly became ensconced in Northside. My point of origin is crucial for understanding this post.
You see, this year the Saints are finally going to the Superbowl. I can already hear Satan skating to work. Not only that, but I have to wear a Saints cheerleader outfit and blog it during the game. It’s one of those “so long a shot you know it will NEVER happen” bets, and now for many of us that hail from the Crescent City “never” has arrived. On our sister site back in New Orleans, HumidCity, one of our bloggers observes:
Apparently a lot of bets are being paid off this year with the Saints first appearance in the Superbowl. From cash to expensive bottles of alcohol to cross-dressing, the Bet That Will Never Be Paid has turned into a very profitable wager for the Faithful. Perennially a 100-1 dog, (or worse,) the odds at the start of the 2009 season for the Saints to get to the Big Dance were between 10-1 and 4-1. And it was a great bet for 43 years. If the Saints made it, you got paid; if they didn’t, you didn’t lose anything. You can’t find better odds than that! Even people who don’t like sports got sucked into the action – case in point: our own Loki.
Indeed. I’ve never had any great liking of sports in general, but even I made one of those bets. The full story is available here on HumidCity. Take a moment and give it the once over so you’ve got the proper background. I’ll wait here.
In the meantime here is the part that effects us here in Cincinnati. I will be watching the Superbowl for the first time ever, and I will be doing so while wearing a Saints cheerleaders uniform. Not only that, but one worn by a real Saints cheerleader back in the 1970s. I will be taking a cue from Buddy D. this next Sunday, and raising a toast to New Orleanians everywhere. Our day has finally come! Yes, it will be blogged both here and on HumidCity.
While Who Dey is the cheer you’ll hear from CincyVoices, the Bengals aren’t in the running and all our energy is going into a good solid New Orleans style WHO DAT!
Another Cincy / NOLA synchronicity is the addition of a Cincy born blogger to the ranks of HumidCity. Jack “Monkeyboy” Ware, a voice much missed in the NOLA blogosphere since he retired from NOLA Metroblogging, has turned out to be a Clifton boy, something I was completely unaware of. So now we have a Cincy boy on HumidCity, and I’m the New Orleans boy on CincyVoices. I’m amused by that. [View Jack Ware's Bio Here, 5th one down]
-Loki, CincyVoices/HumidCity Founder and Temporary Saints Cheerleader
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Have you heard of the Super Bowl bet happening in the art world? It’s between the museum directors of the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
http://www.artsjournal.com/man/2010/01/art_museum_director_super_bowl.html
Because of our proximity to Indianapolis and their art museum, I’ve been encouraging Cincinnatians to root for the Colts.
Of course as a friend and fellow local blogger, I’d be happy for you if the Saints win.
As a long time fan of NOLA- and a frequent visitor both before and after the flooding-I wish you and yours the very best. Go Saints.
@Kathy Thanks for that link, especially since my wife knows Mr. Bullard from her work with Tulane Art Gallery over the past years since Katrina and the Levee Failure. I’ll be posting about that on HumidCity where it is more appropos.
@MA I’d love to meet for coffee sometime and talk about your experiences, and as a native New Orleanian I thank you for your support! I’m trying to bring a little black and gold to Northside!
Enquiring minds want to know:
Are we to assume you will be wearing said outfit and watching said game in public?
because some of us will want to witness this historic occasion…
classic
I’ll be doing it at a friends (another New Orleanian relocated to Northside), but it will be blogged, photographed and there is the possibility of a UStream or YouTube video as well. Part of the arrangement was that it must be blogged because the bet was made to another blogger at one of our Geek Dinners (i.e. surrounded by nothing but other bloggers).
I might be able to bring one or two people with me to the shindig, anyone there is welcome to create whatever media they wish from it. If so I’ll let you know!
I truly think, you paying up on that bet, will be the visual highlight of SuperBowl day. Do I owe the NFL anything for using the words SuperBowl?
Soon… muah-hah-hah-hahhhhh! I do so hope it has arrived!
It has arrived, and almost fits. Fear not, tomorrow will be *ahem* amusing.