This is the story of the University of Oklahoma football
team.
The year was 2014 and the Sooners started their season off
strong. They were led by this new guy named Baker and a trustworthy receiver named Sterling. They were the strongest and smartest football team around. They were
so good that they did not fit in with the other teams in the Big 12 and they
thought that they were destined for a championship.
Until one weekend they took a trip to a sketchy place called
the Cotton Bowl. This is where they ran into the ever so deceitful Longhorns.
The Longhorns were not good people and they were known for their greedy and
selfish acts, such as the Longhorn Network. The Longhorns had a history of
being bad at football and they were especially down when they met the Sooners in
the Cotton Bowl. When they ran into each other the Longhorns found out that the
Sooners' power was stored in the bill of Bob Stoops’ trusty visor. With this
knowledge they realized how valuable that visor was.
In the first half the Longhorns ripped off a small portion of Bob’s
visor and began playing well. They took this part of the visor and were able to get an
advantage over the Sooners. As the game progressed the Sooners' began noticing
changes in their capabilities as players. The offensive line could not block as
well, the corners could not defend as well, and the fans could not cheer as
loud. The Longhorns' got a substantial lead on the Sooners' but that was not near
enough for their greedy coach, Charlie Strong. He wanted more of Bob’s visor
and he knew just how he could get it. Strong waited until Bob got pissed at
the obviously terrible officiating crew and threw his visor to the ground. This
was the perfect opportunity needed for the Longhorns to steal the rest of the
Sooners' power. After the Sooners' lost their power they were unable to do
anything to stop the Longhorns that day. The defense could not tackle the
Longhorns' sneaky quarterback. The Sooners' offense suffered injuries and could
not even piece together a first down. The Longhorns greedily ran the ball up
and down the field under the hot Texas sun until eventually the game was over.
However, the Longhorns forgot to take into account that the
Football Gods were watching this Red River Shootout. The Football Gods decided
to punish the dirty Longhorns for their rude actions against the Sooners. The
Longhorns were punished with a terrible rest of the season. The Football Gods
were going to punish the Longhorns more but they decided not to because they
already had to wear that ugly burnt orange. The Football Gods decided to give
the Sooners their football powers back along with Bob’s visor. However, this was no
ordinary visor, this was a magic gold visor that would give the Sooners the skill
they needed to win the Big 12. This visor would also help the Sooners make it to the College Football Playoffs. Boomer!
Author's Note: I wrote this story with the inspiration from A Jataka Tale comic
book titled Elephant Stories. This story is about an elephant that is a little
different than all the other elephants in his group so he decided to go away on
his own. He goes out of the forest (Cotton Bowl) where he is met by a stranger
who finds out how valuable the elephants ivory (Bob’s Visor) is. The man asks
the elephant for some of his tusk because he is in financial trouble and the
elephant lets him take it. He then goes and sells it and blows all the money.
He then comes back and tricks the elephant by saying he paid his debts but now
has no money to live. The elephant believes him and gives him the rest of his
tusk. The elephant lets this happen and then realizes that the tusk is where he
gets his wisdom. As the man leaves he is killed by God for being greedy (Texas
Sucking) and then God gives the elephant extraordinary gold tusks (Bob's gold
visor). I kept the general concept from the original story but I changed
many of the details by making this story more about football.
Source:Jataka tales of Nobility: Elephant Stories found in the reserves in the Bizzell Memorial Library on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. By: Lakshmi Lal, Ashok Dongre, and Anant Pai
