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===Who Dey Chant===
[[File:Cincinnati Bengals cheerleaders.jpg|thumb|Bengals Cheerleaders leading a cheer.]]
"Who Dey?!" is the name of a chant of support by fans of the Cincinnati Bengals, in use since the 1980s. The entire chant is: "Who dey, who dey, who dey think gonna beat dem Bengals?"<ref name="m391">{{cite web | last=Bender | first=Bill | title=Who Dey origin, explained: How Bengals' chant started and what it means | website=Sporting News | date=2023-01-15 | url=https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/who-dey-origin-bengals-chant-meaning/o5yh95aunshurxrojh3ayxmj | access-date=2024-08-04}}</ref> The answer screamed in unison, "Nobody." Sometimes fans will instead shout "Who Dey?" to represent the entire cheer. "Who Dey" is also the name of the team's [[mascot]], a [[Bengal tiger]].<ref name="WhoDey" />

Saying "Who Dey" at Bengals games is steeped in local beer lore. Hudy, a leading product of [[Hudepohl Brewing Company]] 1978 through the late 1980s, bears a phonetic similarity to the "Who Dey" chant. Beer vendors who carried full cases of bottled local beer up and down the steep upper stairs of what was then Riverfront Stadium would call out "If Hudy", "Burger" and other local beer names. Raucous fans would often chant back and forth with them as the vendors called out. During the 1980 season, the banter with the Hudepohl vendors grew organically into the now famous (Hu-Dey) -Who They?- chant.<ref>This is an eyewitness account from a Cincinnati Bengals season ticket holder. This family held season tickets for the Bengals from their inaugural season in 1968 through the 2000 season when the Bengals moved to Paul Brown Stadium.</ref>

The full Who Dey chant was first known to be used by fans of the [[1980 Cincinnati Bengals season|1980 Cincinnati Bengals]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Overdosing on Bengalmania|work=The Cincinnati Post|first=P. J.|last=Bednarski|date=January 22, 1981|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/764456403/?terms=%22who%20dey%22&match=1|access-date=February 13, 2022|archive-date=February 13, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220213173751/http://www.newspapers.com/image/764456403/?terms=%22who%20dey%22&match=1|url-status=live}}</ref> While the origin of the chant is disputed, one possible source for the chant is a 1980 commercial for (the now-defunct) Red Frazier Ford of Cincinnati, which used this tagline: "Who's going to give you a better deal than Red Frazier?...Nobody!" Cincinnati fans who had seen the commercial many times may have just copied it when cheering.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/who-dey-vs-who-dat/ | title=Who Dey vs. Who Dat | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=December 14, 2006 | access-date=June 15, 2011 | last=Monkovic |first=Toni | archive-date=October 28, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181028074054/https://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/who-dey-vs-who-dat/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

The chant bears some similarities to the phrase "[[Who Dat?]]", which was officially adopted by the [[New Orleans Saints]] in 1983 but had been used by Louisiana's high school team fans for some time. The saying "Who Dat?" originated in [[minstrel shows]] and vaudeville acts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, then it was taken up by [[Dixieland|New Orleans Jazz]] and various Big band folks in the 1920s and 1930s. In the late 1960s, local [[Louisiana]] High Schools, [[St. Augustine High School (New Orleans)|St. Augustine High School]] and [[Patterson High School (Louisiana)|Patterson High School]] reportedly have been using the cheer and Gulf Coast fans of [[Alcorn State University]] and [[Louisiana State University]] picked up the cheer in the 1970s. [[Southern University]] in Baton Rouge, Louisiana claims to have originated the cheer in the late 1960s in their version: "Who dat talking 'bout beating dem Jags?"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.2theadvocate.com/features/80308957.html |title=Where dat from? |website=2theadvocate.com |date=December 30, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127191420/http://www.2theadvocate.com/features/80308957.html |archive-date=January 27, 2010 |url-status=dead |access-date=May 23, 2015 |last=Morris |first=George}}</ref>