(Editor's Note: The following column was published in the Boston Herald on Tuesday, September 25, 2012, putting Matt Chatham and the Herald well ahead of the curve on a rule-change suggestion … ...

In 2009, he retired from the NFL and entered Babson College's M.B.A. program. Chatham won the school's business-plan competition in April, receiving $40,000 worth of services and $20,000 in ...

SIOUX CITY -- Needless to say, no one has seen or done it all. Nonetheless, Matt Chatham, who’ll be inducted into the Iowa High School Athletic Association’s Football Hall of Fame on Friday ...

Matt Chatham made the first and the last tackle in Super Bowl XXXVIII. But after the Patriots’ 32-29 win over the Carolina Panthers on Feb. 1, 2004, it was the hit Chatham made on a nearly naked ...

Trash Bag Day. Yes, Hat and T-Shirt Day is the catchy, infinitely more enjoyable event that gets the most attention, but Trash Bag Day is the painful pseudo-holiday NFL players are more familiar wi… ...

The great reminder from last weekend’s divisional playoffs is that kickoffs are a huge part of the game, despite the NFL’s efforts to shortchange its own version on amateur-hour rationa… ...

Former Patriots linebacker and special teams player Matt Chatham, who won three Super Bowl titles with the team during his nine-year NFL career, is joining the Herald’s NFL coverage team this ...

It was not completely the first year in green that Matt Chatham was looking for. The linebacker came down from Foxboro, Mass., to Hempstead, N.Y., a year ago looking to claim an NFL starting job and ...