“Who Dey?! Who Dey!? Who Dey think gonna beat them Bengals?! Nooooo-body!”
With the upcoming game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Kansas City Chiefs, the cheer resonates all over Ohio and wherever else the Who Dey Nation resides.
So how did this cheer begin? There is no definitive answer but one popular theory involves a local brewery.
Hudepohl Brewing has been in Cincinnati since 1885. Hudepohl is a city staple, the company regularly sold beers at the old Riverfront Stadium – where the Bengals began playing in 1970, two years after its first season – and at bars near the stadium. When vendors and bartenders would shout out the beers, they would say "Hudy" or "HuDey" which sounds exactly like "Who Dey." Thus, the saying was born.
The cheer gained popularity by fans during the 1981 season, when team won its first playoff game in franchise history and made its first Super Bowl. Hudepohl Brewery put the cheer on one of their beer cans that same season.
The cheer rose to national prominence when the Bengals made Super Bowl XXIII in 1988 and has been synonymous with the fan base since.
Our best local grocery store, Dorothy Lane Market, sells an over-the-top brownie, the Killer Brownie, and it has been named the official Brownie of the Cincinnati Bengals. Bengal-mania comes in all forms!
Who Dey!
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