Dear Norman Chad, Shut Up About The Tuck RulePatriots by Mike Cooney - March 31, 2017March 31, 20172 Why, you may ask, am I writing about the Tuck Rule play, which happened 15 years ago. Well, I stumbled across an interview Norman Chad did with NPR last month. I then found another column he'd written on the subject. As a columnist, I like Chad when he'd written for Sports Illustrated.