NEW ORLEANS — The battle over who owns the phrase “Who Dat” is already in court, and several merchandisers in the metro area received letters saying they are required to pay licensing fees to the company Who Dat?, Inc. to sell anything with the phrase printed on it.
Who Dat?, Inc. maintains that they’ve been licensing the phrase since the 1980s, and it’s their intellectual property.
“In 1983, we got excited and wrote a song,” said Steve Monistere about how they ended up registering a trademark of ‘Who Dat?” that same year.
No one denies that Sal and Steve Monistere and Carlo Nuccio wrote a version of “When the Saints Go Marching In,” performed by Aaron Neville, with the “Who Dat” chant in the song.
But the issue is not who owns the song, but who owns the phrase “Who Dat.”
SAN FRANCISCO — New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush has a fractured fibula in his right leg, sources tell ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.
The injury is not expected to end Bush’s season, sources said, indicating he could return in four to six weeks. More tests were scheduled for Tuesday.
Bush had to leave Monday night’s 25-22 victory over San Francisco in the fourth quarter. Bush, who said he would likely get X-rays after the team returned to New Orleans, had an ice bag wrapped around his right leg in the locker room and was using crutches to get around.
If you want to know what champions are made of, look no further than the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints.
They took everything the San Francisco 49ers could throw out them Monday night and the 49ers played just about as good a game as they could have. It didn’t matter because the Saints are the better team and they were going to do whatever it took to win, 25-22, on a last-second field goal by Garrett Hartley.
That’s exactly what happened after the 49ers tied the game at 22 with one minute, 19 seconds left. Then, with the wind literally at his back, Drew Brees did exactly what he did last year — when the wind was symbolically at his back — all the way to the Super Bowl.
Although he hadn’t been his usual precise self much of the night, Brees was a machine on the final drive. His back-shoulder pass to Marques Colston to set up the field goal was a thing of beauty. Hartley’s field goal wasn’t a work of art, but the kick made it through the uprights and the Saints are 2-0.
New Orleans Saints kicker Garrett Hartley hit three fourth-quarter field goals, the last a 37-yarder as time expired, and New Orleans benefited from four San Francisco turnovers to beat the 49ers 25-22 on Monday night.
The improbable game, with wild momentum swings in the fourth quarter, puts the Saints at 2-0 – the first time in franchise history they have begun consecutive seasons with back-to-back victories. San Francisco, meanwhile, fell to 0-2.
Although the Saints escaped with the victory more than one person among the 69,732 at Candlestick Park felt the win was gift-wrapped by home team blunders. That view may not be entirely accurate – the Saints had no turnovers and their special teams played superbly with Hartley hitting three field goals one week after missing two attempts, and punter Thomas Morstead controlling field position in the Saints’ favor – but there was little question the 49ers’ offense moved the ball better than the Saints did most of the night.
SAN FRANCISCO — New Orleans Saints tailback Reggie Bush apparently injured his right knee in the fourth quarter of Monday’s 25-22 victory against the San Francisco 49ers. Bush was fielding a punt, muffed the ball, and appeared to hurt himself lunging to try to recover it. He tried to get up and run off the field but then fell to the turf. He was carted off and didn’t return.
He left the stadium on crutches. The extent of his injury is unknown.
San Francisco – The New Orleans Saints have announced the winner of the raffle for an official Super Bowl XLIV championship ring identical to the one that was awarded to the ownership, players, coaches and administrative staff that was custom designed by Tiffany and Co. to benefit those affected directly by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Christopher S. Lynn of Hattiesburg, Mississippi is the winner of the ring. The Saints Gulf Coast Renewal Fund raised nearly $1.4 million through the raffle.
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