The Great Santini!
I had dinner with him back in the early 90’s, when I attended a three day private law enforcement seminar in Philly. Sat right next to him, and he looked as familiar as all get-out, but I couldn’t quite connect the face and the name until a couple of years later. (I was never a TV junkie - it took a little while for the proverbial light bulb to go off over my head.) He was a featured player in some onstage scenarios emphasizing apprehension, and tort law. Call it ‘Twelve Angry Men’ meets ‘The Rockford Files’. Very pleasant, personable man, very low-key, and none of that ‘Don’t you know who I am?’ pretense whatsoever. The conversation drifted to football, and he was, of course, a big Houston Oilers fan. Very nice guy, it felt like he was ‘one of the gang’.