Cincinnati 38 -- Pittsburgh 31
The Me
- The Sasquatch
- Columbus, Ohio, United States
- I'm a bald man with bad eyesight. I'm 5'11" and I eat chili with reckless abandon. I'm a Cincinnati Reds fan and lover of literature. I once tackled a midget. I work with computers but my computer rarely works. My ears ring, my feet hurt, and most popular music will make my toenails curl if the weather is right. I am hopeless when it comes to understanding women or economics or why the sky is blue instead of some other color. I enjoy the smell of freshly cut grass and the sound of rain in the forest. I believe in God, but I sometimes wonder whether He believes in me. I watch television on Wednesdays and I listen to the radio when I'm in my car. My baseball coach used to tell me that I ran so slow he had to time me with a calendar and my band director once said I could be a professional cornet player if only I'd practice. I am madly in love with my wife and she is madly in love with the original CSI. I wake up each morning with a smile on my face because, even if it's cold and grey and rainy and dreary, the first thing I see in the morning is her face, and it is the most beautiful site in the world; especially after I put on my glasses.
2 comments:
okay, so what's with the whole "who dey" phrase? i don't get it. never have.
Back in 1988/89 when the Begnals went to the Super Bowl, everyone in Cincinnati was caught in the hype (like they are now). With the success of the 1985 Chicago Bears still relatively fresh in everyone's minds, the Bengals tried to emulate the schamltziness that followed their trip to glory. The Bears made a music video that everybody loved. They played it on MTV and local radio stations across the country. The Bengals, in their lame attempt to copy the Bears, made a song and video of their own. It was called "Who Dey?" (as in "who dey think dey gonna beat dem Bengals?"). It was quite pathetic and nobody outside Cincinnati paid any attention to it. Naturally, the Bengals lost the Super Bowl (due to the idiotic prevent defense used against Jo Montana in the waning minutes of the game). Over the years, as the Bengals got worse and worse, people would occasionally bring up the Who Dey song and the stupidity surrounding it as a means of both remembering good times and making fun of the current team. It fell out of favor somewhere around 1996 or 1997 when the Bengals won 2 games. A couple years ago, when Marvin Lews took over, people started signing it again. Only now it was more apt since the Bengals have been relatively successful for a few years. Bootsy Collins (he of Parliament Funkadelic fame and a native of the Cincinnati area) even re-recordrd a version of the song in hopes of sparking a successful playoff run. I don't know anybody who has heard the remake.
Granted, it is pathetic and lame. Granted, nobody outside Cincinnati pays attention. But who cares? The Bengals are winning. Who Dey!
(*that's probably more than you wanted, right?*)
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