Family Weekend Part 1 (The Game)

We’ve recently finished our Family Weekend here at NCCU, and it was Exciting. The weekend started on Friday September 18th with the welcoming ceremony and varies activities for the parents and family members. Then Saturday there was breakfast with the #1 Eagle, Chancellor Nelms followed by a huge tailgate for our first home game. When Central Tailgates, We do it BIG! There was blowup slides and moon-walks for the children. Local Vendors with food were there including Fish Plates, Shrimp, Turkey Legs, Funnel cakes, and there was even a smoothie vendor that sold actual Pineapple drinks in the Pineapple. That was interesting to me. The Smoothies were good as well. The Pre-Game was the best! There was the Famous Eagle jumping around and hyping the crowd and dancing with the Team on the field warming up. There was the Marching Soul Machine blasting the soulful old school hits and pumping the crowd up. Plus it was just a good feeling to have everyone there supporting the Eagles… it was like one huge Family. The Game was Fun; everyone cheered and chanted for our football team. One of the most interesting parts were the 1st downs, every time the eagles got a first down the band would play a tune and the crowd would yell Eagle 1st down. I’m starting to find out the school traditions and I’m guessing that the 1st down chant is a tradition along with the N-C-C-UUUUUUUUUUUU tune that the band plays often to hype the crowd up. Although our mighty eagles fought hard, they lost 10-13 in double-overtime. Later that night was the talent showcase in which the students, family and faculty were able to showcase their talents in front of the student body.

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