Week 7 Storytelling: A Divided Family

There were two families: the Stoops and the Gundys.

Bob stoops and Mike Gundy were brothers, but their sons did not get along (and they never have).
One day Stoops had to go on vacation and his sons were forced to go to Stillwater to stay with Gundy and his sons, the Cowboys.
Now, it was kind of Gundy to allow Stoops' sons, the Sooners, to stay at their house, but he should have known better. The Cowboys have always been jealous of the Sooners for their strength and their numbers of fans. The Sooners included Yudhisthria (the most truthful of men), Bhima (the strongest of men), Arjun (an irresistible warrior), and the twins Nakula and Sahadeva. The Cowboys were so numerous, to make up for their lack of greatness. The eldest Cowboy, however, was Duryodhana. Gundy had been advised to get rid of Duryodhana, but he did not follow the advice which would later haunt him.

(Image Information: A state divided. Source: news6)

Although Gundy was blind, he wasn't stupid. He knew the power that the Sooners held, and he decided to give them the title of Champions. Duryodhana could not bear that his father would do such a thing, so he attempted to sabotage the Sooners. He decided to replace their Gatorade with alcohol. Thinking he had finally ruined the Sooners, Duryohana left proudly. However, when the Sooners came on the field, they realized their items were tampered with, which fueled them to be even greater and more successful against their enemies. This upset Duryodhana, and he rallied up his Cowboys to go to war with the Sooners. The Sooners accepted the challenge and met the Cowboys on the field. 

Once they were on the field, the Cowboys had realized what they had done and pleaded to Duryodhana to make peace with the Sooners. Duryodhana, however, ignored these requests and allowed his egotism to cloud his judgment of success. He thought surely they had enough men to bring down even the greatest of football teams. The Sooners, seeing Duryodhana and the Cowboys not showing any signs of stopping, also continued to fight. Bhima tackled and thus injured many of the Cowboys. Arjun threw the ball to his brothers as if it was an arrow, always meeting its target. Soon, there was only one Cowboy left, Duryodhana. He continued to fight, and he was soon defeated too. He had allowed his rage against the Sooners to get the best of him, and in doing so he destroyed the whole team. Gundy was devastated when he heard the news, and just as before, he had to crown the Sooners as the champions. 

The moral of the story is: the Cowboys will always lose in the battle against the Sooners, no matter how hard they try….

Author’s Note: I decided to write about something we all hold so dear at OU: football. I kept the outline of the story the same, but changed the context of the battle. I got the idea for this story because it's OU/Texas week! (I couldn’t write badly about Texas though because the rest of my family went there.) The version I read this week also took out all the magic and humanized the characters of the epic, so I decided to do the same. 

Bibliography: Wilson, Richard. The Five Tall Sons of Pandu. Print. 1914.