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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