Alabama Fans Are Deadly Serious About Football
A wheeled casket gives new meaning to the war cry, “Roll Tide!”

Alabama football fans call their team’s head coach Nick Saban “St. Nick,” as though he’d already died and been canonized. They make pilgrimages to a 9-foot-tall bronze statue him on the campus Tuscaloosa. They believe he earns his $9.7 million a year salary by performing miracles…