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Thom says she isn’t in favor of striking some sort of licensing deal with Who Dat Inc. “Let us have our moment,” she says. “We’re fans; it’s the fans’ saying and we’re using our creativity as artists.” She’s asking fans who agree with her position to wear black and gold ribbons of support to home games. Other local merchants are still churning out Who Dat merchandise (Zapp’s even makes ‘Who Dat’ potato chips) and Storyville and other merchants have come out with new lines for the 2010 season. But the unexpected consequence of the NFL’s suit is that it seemed to open a Pandora’s box of litigation. Not only is the Monistere brothers’ suit against the NFL working its way through New York’s federal courts, but there’s also a suit by a St. Bernard cafe called “Who Dat Yat Chat” against Who Dat Inc. The restaurant, which claims it wants nothing to do with the Saints, has made the most daring claim of all: Nobody owns the phrase “Who Dat.” Just another way of saying we all do.
YING YANG TWINS [ Crunk Yankers ] hat a difference a year makes. In 2008, proper Uptown ladies probably thought “crunk” was the sound your car makes when it hits a pothole on Magazine Street. By 2009, they were standing up in the Dome with 70,000 others singing along to the Ying Yang Twins’ “(Halftime) Stand Up and Get Crunk.” The YY Twins, who hailed from Atlanta (home of the Falcons — the Falcons!), had a few rap hits over the years, the first of which was “Get Low,” performed with Lil Jon. They originally recorded “Stand Up and Get Crunk” in 2004, but it didn’t become a Black and Gold anthem until early in the 2009 season, when the team began playing it after each Saints touchdown, igniting frenzied dancing in the Dome, even among those who couldn’t define Dirty South on a bet. As the year went on, the song became a popular ringtone, rose toward the top of the Amazon and iTunes rap singles charts and was the subject of a number of popular YouTube remixes. The Twins (Kaine and D’Roc) made an amusing appearance on WDSU-TV with sports anchor Keli Fulton, in which they seemed preternaturally (one might say Snoop Doggedly) relaxed. The song even made it into the Madden NFL 11 videogame, featuring Drew Brees on the cover, and they performed it live during the Lombardi Gras victory parade — of all places, on the steps of Gallier Hall. Will we still be as eager to get crunk during the 2010 season? Or will a new anthem emerge? The Ying Yang Twins aren’t waiting around to find out if they’re a one-hit Saints wonder; in June, they released a new album, Gumbo.
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