Team Spotlight: Glory Bowl

Well the league office has been remiss in addressing our newest expansion team.  Glory Bowl was granted a league franchise in week 2 of this year and in keeping with BFBL tradition we now turn the team spotlight on the members of Glory Bowl.

First up, the captain of Glory Bowl Brett Barrier.  When Brett first realized that he may have an opportunity to go from subbing in week one to running a franchise in week 2, he had a crisis of confidence.  Self doubt crept in as he pondered all the ways that he might not be successful.  His more recent failures including skipping breakfast and multiple j-walking tickets filled his head with doubt.  Was he really cut out to be a bowling team captain?  After a few tense days, Brett learned that his check did in fact clear and he was now an official BFBL team captain.  All he needed was to build a team.

Brett’s first stop was the Baldry’s.  Bill and Erica Baldry have been a package deal since the day they were married.  Doing everything together was Bill’s idea.  It was his image of the perfect union.  Admittedly it was strange for Erica.  Before marriage Erica was used to the times spent bathing and using the facilities as “Erica” time.  Bill worked from day 1 to prove her wrong and now the Baldry’s are the reigning Customers of the Year at Deuce’s Doublewide Toilet Emporium.  Naturally when Erica wanted to bowl, Bill was right beside her.

Next up on the Bill’s target list was Jeff and Lee Varga.  Unlike the Baldry’s, the Varga’s were far from a package deal.  In fact the merits of bowling had been a major point of debate in their marriage for years.   Jeff had maintained his family’s belief that bowling was the devil’s work.  A game that leads to sloth, dilly dallying and a dangerous hardening of the arteries.  Lee, on the other hand came from a long line of bowling greats.  Having been raised at the alley, Lee would hear stories most often of her legendary Uncle Haratio.  Haratio was a such a bowler that he once won Bowler of the Year and the Champion Couch Potato awards for greater Canyon county in the same year.  His accomplishment was all more the celebrated after his passing due to heart attack later the following year.  All this family history made Lee commit to Glory Bowl on the spot.  She knew Jeff would not approve and she knew that it would take a convincing argument for Jeff to sign the contract that Brett had offered him.  As it turns out Jeff’s addiction to Tater Tots ultimately forced him to compromise his family values and sign on the dotted line.

Finally, Bill turned to that great sea of humanity (and phenomenal bowlers) to fill the final spot.  The women’s room at the Greyhound station was where he signed Kylie.  Bill tried to pry into her history and even get her last name, but all Kylie would say is that she was a kick ass bowler and only had one name; like Madonna or Elmo.  Bill was admittedly tentative.  The only encouraging sign was that it didn’t appear that Kylie actually lived permanently in the restroom and with little time remaining, Bill presented Kylie her contract and filled out the Glory Bowl roster.