Hu Dey?
What a weekend of football! Every game came down to the wire with exciting finishes. During the Bengals squeaker against Tennessee, our family, all Bengals fans, were texting back and forth on every big play. It also happened to be my niece Susie's 50th birthday, so the family had multiple reasons to celebrate. Here she is hydrating prior to the big game!
Her son was on the slopes in Colorado in his Bengal’s gear and sent this photo.
And here’s the birthday girl and her husband Gary lighting up to celebrate a great 50 years and the Bengals big victory!
Many of the texts throughout the game included the Bengals famous slogan. Some were spelled “Who Dey and others were Hu Dey, so I went on-line to see which one is right. Here’s what I found:
The Hudepohl Brewing Company just may be responsible for the chant. Bengals great, and radio announcer, Dave Lapham explained in this 2015 article:
"... beer vendors and bartenders selling Hudepohl at Riverfront Stadium and at bars across Cincinnati began shouting, Hudy or HuDey for the beer name as that bears a phonetic similarity to who they.”
During that fantastic season, Hudepohl even came out with a Hu Dey commemorative beer can depicting the famous slogan.
Believe it or not, the Cincinnati Zoo named this tiger back the Hu Dey.
The Hu Dey Cheer started in that magical 1981 season and is still a proud tradition at the stadium as evident by clicking this link. There’s even a rap song about Hu Dey!
However, the New Orleans Saints have taken issue with the slogan, claiming it was copied from their chant called “Who Dat?. But further on-line research indicated their slogan originated in 1984, three years after the Bengals, so who’s copying Hu?
That 1981 Bengals team was special, led by quarterback Ken Anderson. I personally was able to attend the Freezer Bowl, aka the AFC Championship game against the Chargers at Riverfront as well as the Super Bowl against the 49ers at Pontiac Stadium. Check out this blog about my memories of those two highly touted games.
Needed these socks at the Freezer Bowl for sure.
Commemorative button from the Super Bowl
Check out this Hudepohl ad featuring Laugh In’s Arte Johnson: https://youtu.be/6L1oah8_bEw
Hudphol was also a featured sponsor of Reds ball games back then, as shown below in this photo of old Crosley Field with the fabled terrace in the outfield. Here’s a past blog about those days.
Sure hope the Bengals can contain KC’s Patrick Mahomes and prevent sacks of QB Joe Burrows this week end.
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