Virtue is not Dead in the ESPN Zone

Yesterday, my family went to the ESPN Zone to watch the Chicago
Cubs play. Football seemed to be on the menu as there were only 2
T.V.s showing the baseball game. Imagine that! the Cubs haven't won
a world championship since the 1940s Yet ESPN Zone restaurant was
showing games like Syracuse and Louisville, Florida and Ole Miss. In
other parts of the country this would be fine but, hey, we are in the
deep reaches of Cubs territory here!
Still it was a "Happening" of fraternal proportions! There were a
group of Florida fans watching and one shorter stature fellow seemed
to be the self appointed information agent for the University. He
stood for a large portion of the game and screamed at both players
and refs in exhortation or correction. We asked him when he
graduated from Florida and he replied that he had "partied too much"
and had to attend another school to graduate. Yet, he and his
friends sang a stirring rendition of what I assume was the Gator
fight song at the end of the game, which was won by Florida.
Loyalty is one of the fleeting virtues of our society when it
comes to political parties or which dentist your insurance will let
you see. So, as loud and obnoxious as these guys were, they still
demonstrated loyalty to the team they had chosen in years past. They
attacked the other team as well as they could from 800 miles away
and, all in all, represented the U. of Florida in admirable
fashion. As for the Cubs, their fan base is the definition of
Loyalty and, today, their heroes did not disappoint them. Cubs
Win!! Cubs Win!!
I'll have to think through some other virtues to write about in
the future. The one that comes to mind now is Temperance which not
nearly as much in evidence in the netherworld of the ESPN Zone!