VCU tailgate party had students Chillin’ N’ Grillin’

Virginia Commonwealth University is one of only a few state universities of its size without a football team, but that does not stop the school from celebrating Homecoming. 

Just before hundreds of VCU basketball fans took their places in the stands of the Siegel Center, beer and barbeque were on the menu at VCU’s annual Chill n’ Grill. 

Described by sponsors as a tailgate party in the middle of winter, the Chill n’ Grill took place in the school’s VV Parking Lot.  The party came at the end of VCU’s Homecoming Week, just before the men’s basketball game against Towson and the crowning of a new king and queen during half time.

Organizers say this years theme, “the last of the eighties babies,” was chosen since the current freshman class was mostly born in 1989: signaling the end of a generation of VCU students who remember when Zach Morris ran Bayside High School and “Too Legit to Quit” ruled the airwaves.  More than 400 frat brothers, sorority sisters and alumni made up the crowd’s majority – many dressed in full black and gold garb.  MC Hammer and LL Cool J blasted through the loudspeakers as students danced, drank and most certainly ate their hot dogs and hamburgers.