DALLAS — A photo shows four siblings dressed in crimson gear, smiling, arms lovingly wrapped around each other. They’re happy because they’re together. And because the University of Alabama football team just beat Georgia on the road in the pouring rain. Everything about the picture appears perfectly normal.
The second person from the left in the photo is Crimson Tide quarterback Jake Coker, who less than an hour before it was taken had thrown for 190 yards and scored two touchdowns in the critical early October matchup in Athens, Ga. When the game was over, he met his family for celebratory hugs.