Who Dey?

Okay, so this post has some explaining to do. My parents booked tickets a while ago to come see the kids. One of my dad's life long dreams was to go to a NFL game. I decided after they bought their plane tickets to see if by chance, any of the 4 or 5 NFL teams close to us was doing a home Monday Night Football game. Turns out that the Bengals were kicking off their 40th season for Monday Night Football! So, we got tickets and went. This isn't my first NFL game, we went to the Colts vs. Redskins on November 17th, 2002. This was SO MUCH different. At the Colts game, we were 12 rows from the field. At the Bengals game, we were 1 row from the top! With every point and every bad play, the ground below us would shake!

Bengals won the game. Cincinnati Bengals - 27 and Baltimore Ravens 20. We spent just about the entire time of the game on our feet! So, you might be asking, what the heck is Who Dey? We were wondering the same question. From the time we parked the car (which was $25) until the end of the game, people were chanting Who Dey? Mass crowds of people would start yelling it and everyone would start cheering. We finally figured out what it meant. "Who dey! Who dey! Who dey think gonna beat dem Bengals?" I looked it up and it is actually in the Wikipedia Dictionary listed about the Bengals fans. Totally funny!

Okay, so to add the the hilarious day. You would expect only High school and College teams to have a "song" that is played after every touchdown. Oh no! The Bengals have one and the whole stadium sings in unison this song.

"Hear that Bengal growlin' mean and angry. Here he comes a prowlin' lean and hungry. An offensive brute. Run, pass or boot. And defensively he's rough, tough. Cincinnati Bengals. That's the team we're going to cheer to victory. Touchdown Bengals get some points upon that board. And win a game for Cincinnati."

There were 66,093 people in the stadium. We had a BLAST!! I wish I could put into words how much fun we had. If you like football and ever get a chance, go sit in the nosebleed section of a NFL game. The whole experience was better being at the top!!!

We got free scarfs. Aaron got pretty into the game and wrapped it around his head for the entire game.

I decided to support him, but just for a minute! It was too hot as it was. But to add a scarf to my head was WAY to much!

The crowd behind us almost looks like a cardboard replica, but we were really there!