Lavon Hayes is a Renaissance man living and working in the bucolic town of Bluebell, Alabama. He currently serves as mayor and co-chair of the town's Tourism Council. He is always willing to put in a good word for Bluebell. The town's website includes a welcome from Lavon, which reads: We here pride ourselves on being a close-knit community dedicated to providing our residents with the absolute finest in Southern living. From the Founder's Day Parade to the annual Gumbo Cook-Off of BlueBell is the quintessential small town with a heart of gold. So there you go.Before entering politics, Lavon spent a decade in the National Football League as a linebacker, winning two Super Bowls and being selected for five Pro Bowls. He graduated from The University of Alabama, where he played linebacker for the Crimson Tide. Lavon currently lives on the spacious and beautiful Mayor's Plantation, where he provides shelter to New York surgeon Zoe Hart when she reluctantly arrives for a one-year stint of general practitioner duty. The two eventually become good friends.He has deep roots in the area, which leads to relationships with long and sometimes complicated relationships -- especially with Lemon Breeland, the town's reigning Southern Belle. Lavon has much less complicated relationship with his faithful pet alligator, Burt Reynolds. Show less «