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.
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3-06-2007 @ 1:00PM
Rebel Fan said...
I think I can speak for most UNLV fans when I say that Joe Darger is the heart of the UNLV bench. If we have to raid rural polygamist Utah for more Dargers, I say "Why Not"? He can shoot the three all day, and he is learning to go strong to the basket, which is what he needs to do to become a well-rounded starter. He hustles, plays strong defense. I think Kruger should just sign the next Darger in the family now.
Now that the tournament is rolling around, look for the next human interest story to be on coach Kruger having his son on the team, it is a great story, and we are lucky to have K2.
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3-06-2007 @ 7:45PM
Dex said...
Doesn't Joel Anthony come off the bench usually since the Rebs start 3 guards and Wendell?
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3-19-2007 @ 2:09PM
Mik said...
Its really to bad that those polygamists are parents of a gay son.
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3-19-2007 @ 4:01PM
Kimberly said...
No, polygamist, do not a family make. I don't care if people are gay and get married, that's fine, those people really are trying to form family units... but polygamy is slavery for women. And I'll keep my following comments short, because it pisses me off that ANYONE would suggest that simply because he's a good father, then it's okay for this to be going on.
This kind of stuff puts women into a demeaning state, where they aren't good enough for a man to just have one. And women, can't have more than one man, either. Or so says their religion.
It's demoralizing and puts us women into a state of dependence and poverty.
I will never allow myself to be forced to depend upon a man to survive. And I will never allow a religion to tell me that I'm evil and that I must allow a man to enter me in order to become good.
And these women who get into these relationships are told to be like that by their religion. They are TOLD to be slaves, to obey the man, that their only use is to have children so the father can achieve a higher place in heaven (or planets in the case of the Mormons). They are forced into these marriages at a young age, sold and bought as property in other countries that allow it, and can do nothing about it, not even divorse.
I don't CARE how good of a father he is, what he's doing is wrong and above all, illegal.
Two wrongs (or two wives) don't make a right.
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