If you watch some iteration of Law & Order -- and if you have a television, it is virtually impossible not to -- you will notice that the plots occasionally hew closely to real-life crimes and characterizations.

The Boston Herald reports today that a Tom Brady-type character is a suspect in an L&O: SVU  (Elliot and Olivia) murder case where the victim is gay. The quarterback suspect wears No. 12, has a cleft in his chin, plays in a red-and-blue stadium and dates a supermodel. Know anyone like that? 

All of which reminds me of a TV detective show years ago where the suspect was a hard-charging, gravelly-voiced, neatly groomed football coach who loved to eat ice cream -- a characterization that would remind one of George Allen. If anyone else remembers that show and has any additional info, let me know. Now it's nagging at me.