Call it genetics, a support network, or sibling rivalry taken to extremes. But those brothers fortunate enough to reach the professional sports ranks say it takes a combination of factors to achieve the rare family double, or even triple.
When Alex Roldan joined his older brother, Cristian, on the field for the Sounders on Sunday, it marked the first time in recent memory that two siblings have started the same game for a Seattle pro sports team. Seattle knows all about the Trufants, the Huards, the Burlesons, and the Tuiasosopos as brothers, but none started for the same team.