Owner: Torry HallelujahTeam: The KL Crew
The son of a preacher, Torry Hallelujah spent most of his childhood riding around the Ozarks in the back of a Ford F-150 with his three brothers, driving from town to town watching their father deliver sweat-drenched sermons to apoplectic townsfolk. After services ended, it was not uncommon for the boys to stumble upon their father bedding an overeager school marm in the bed of the truck. To pass the time, the boys simulated an entire 12-team fantasy football league, scribbling the results on the backs of church hymnals. An intense argument over the merits of switching to a two-quarterback league fractured the brothers' relationship, however, and Hallelujah, frustrated with his brothers' lack of vision and creativity, set off west by himself.
After his own career as a preacher proved short-lived—his sermon "Finding Salvation: Priest Holmes and the 2002-2003 NFL Season" did not win him many fans in the Methodist churchgoing community—Hallelujah hitchhiked to Los Angeles, where he now leads an instructional seminar for celebrities on fantasy football. His clients include Andy Dick, Patricia Clarkson, and the guy who played Wilson on the TV series Home Improvement. Late at night Hallelujah can be found sitting on his back porch, drinking a beer as he thinks about his father and brothers, still on their mad, Christ-driven journey around Texarkana. They have yet to reconcile.
