It's being billed as The Return and as Week 4 of the NFL season approaches, it's the game everyone has been talking about: Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady heads back to Foxborough, Massachusetts, to face his former team, the New England Patriots (8:20 p.m. ET, NBC). Brady won an unprecedented six Super Bowl titles in 20 years with the Patriots before securing a seventh ring with the Buccaneers last season.
It's not the first time an athlete, whom generations of a single fan base have adored and whose identity had been so closely intertwined with a city and its culture, has gone elsewhere and come back as a visitor.