Who Dat???
Having seen our beloved Saints defeat the Green Bay Packers last night, it made me say our "Who Dat" cheer over and over. It also made me wonder what other countries or areas have catchy team cheers that, while maybe ungrammatical or ineloquent, nonetheless gets you going?
In our case, this long-time beloved (and copyrighted) chant goes like this:
"Who dat, who dat, who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?"
For our Spanish-speaking friends, the more grammatical way to say that would, I think, be:
"Who are they who say they are going to beat those Saints?"
Now I'll try to translate the "chant" version into Spanish:
"¿Quiénes, quiénes, quiénes dicen van a vencer los Saints?"
Now the (hopefully) grammatically correct version:
"¿Quiénes son ellos los que dicen que van a vencer a los Saints?"
Obviously, I could use a lot of help here, so please correct where you feel appropriate.
My question, though, is do any of you have your favorite team chants? Of course I'd especially like to hear from our Spanish-speaking friends about, perhaps, similar chants for their football (soccer for the "untrained") teams. I hope this is a fun exercise! 
3 Answers
I went to undergraduate school at Duke, and one of the traditional cheers was to respond to the introduction of the opposing team's players by yelling, "Who's he?" After a hotly contested basketball game against the South Carolina Gamecocks, we got written up in a South Carolina paper for bad sportsmanship just on account of that cheer. Roosters never could take a joke.
I'm not even going to try to translate that into Spanish. Way above my pay grade. Maybe I'll come back to it in a couple of years.
I think the most unusual one in England is this
?"I'm forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air"?
Creo que el más inusual en Inglaterra es esto
? "Estoy siempre soplando burbujas, lindas burbujas en el aire"?
Geaux Tigers!!! (Both, football and baseball)
"Geaux" is a French word-play on the verb go.
Derives from areas highly populated with Cajun Americans, Louisiana State University Tiger fans, or more commonly both.
