April 24, 2008
Law & Order Hates Tom Brady
Oh, Tom Brady. You may love New York, but it seems the feeling is not mutual. First there was that thing against the Giants in Arizona that we still don’t want to talk about, and now Law & Order: SVU branded “a pro football player who wears No. 12, has a cleft chin and a supermodel galpal, [and] plays in a red-and-blue stadium” a suspect in the murder of his secret gay lover in its most recent episode “The Closet.”
While Bostonist doesn’t think portraying Tom Terrific’s doppelganger as gay is insulting, calling him a murderer certainly is. Not to mention that the dead boyfriend is merely an investment banker. Come on now L & O, our boy could do better than that! It couldn’t at least have been a matinée-idol actor or Greek shipping magnet magnate? We’re also a little disturbed by the implication that being an athlete in the closet could drive one to murder, but this is Law & Order: No Body, No Show, so we’ll let that pass.
Anyway, the episode fictionalized away the part where our dreamboat quarterback has a dreamboat baby, but we imagine the precocious tyke will have something to say about this sad situation.
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"we imagine the precocious tyke will have something to say about this sad situation."
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"shipping magnet"??? Guess that would explain the attraction...
Oh, bugger. My editors are totally going to have to get me a copy of Homonyms For Dummies.
shipping magnet, i think, is far more interesting.
I wonder if TB will respond to this. It's odd they'd be that specific for a show.
Thank you!
My boyfriend was convinced it was one of the Manning boys getting picked on, but the supermodel girlfriend and the endorsement deal -- did they actually shamelessly NAME Smartwater in the ep? I really think they did! -- seemed pretty obvious to me.
I do not understand the hoopla, or even the reference to Father. Clearly the show is defaming former Bills QB Jim Kelly. like the old saying goes, "If you goe to the Super Bowl 4 times in a row and can't seal the deal, you deserve to be called a closeted gay murderer." I can't remember exactly where I read that, but I'm pretty sure it was the bible.