Date: 1999/02/16
Associated Press ran a story Feb. 14 regarding a post-game contretemps between Indiana Univ. head coach Bob(by) Knight and his Northwestern counterpart Kevin
O'Neill, apparently exacerbated by Knight's criticism of the Northwestern fans' behavior. In particular, Knight took umbrage at crowd chants of "Who's your daddy?"
The AP article sez:
"'Who's your daddy?' is not an uncommon cheer in college basketball, although its meanings are open to interpretation.
"Sometimes parentage is involved; sometimes it's a generic put-down. Other times, it seems, it can mean whatever the crowd wants it to mean.
"And, in the case of Indiana and 'Hoosier daddy,' there may have been some wordplay at work."
The article notes that Stanford students used it to taunt Arizona's Mike Bibby, who has had a widely disclosed strained relationship with his father, and that there are some apparent variants -- Stanford fans yelled "deadbeat daddy" at a Connecticut player who fathered a child.
