TAMPA — Nothing about what’s on the table will seem out of the ordinary. When Buccaneers rookie Ali Marpet sits down with his family to dig into Thanksgiving Day dinner, it will be turkey, dressing and all the fixings.
It’s what’s around the table that is extraordinary.
As diverse as the magazines scattered across a coffee table in a doctor’s waiting room, Marpet’s family is one in which mainstream clearly skipped a generation.
At the head of the table is the patriarch, Bill Marpet, whose long gray hair, pulled back into a pony tail, and earrings are your first hint he’s not your run-of-the-mill dad.