If any of you polygamists out there are looking for a team to support (or another team, I should say, as you've never really limited yourself to just one anything, have you?) in the NCAA tournament, might I recommend the UNLV Runnin' Rebs?Joe Darger, a 6'7" shooter, has 18 siblings (with ages ranging from 2 to 40), a mother, a father, and another woman whom his father married. CBS loves to get the crowd shots of proud parents during tournament games. I can't wait to see how they handle Joe's three parents. Billy Packer will need the telestrator to explain that one to the home viewer.
After spending the morning at a baptism (I bet they go to three or four of those a week), fifteen of Joe's family members made the trip to Vegas to see the last game of UNLV's regular season. His parents bought Joe an off-campus house, because they didn't want him to live in a dorm with the plentiful amount of tempting ladyfolk wondering around.
By all accounts in this New York Times article, they're very sweet people. Polygamy is odd to me, but I try not to judge, because if two UNLV cheerleaders came to me tomorrow and asked me to marry both of them, I'm not sure I'd say no. The Dargers might be a non-traditional family, but it's a family nonetheless. Ultimately, I suppose that's what counts.
