Steelers at Patriots Thursday, September 10th, 2015

Tom Brady will be under center. The New England Patriots will raise their fourth Super Bowl banner.

On Thursday night, all will finally seem normal in Foxborough.

After the seemingly endless offseason drama surrounding "Deflategate," the Patriots begin defense of their championship led by their superstar quarterback - a circumstance that was in doubt until just a week ago - when they host the Pittsburgh Steelers to open the NFL season.

Brady's four-game suspension was erased last Thursday by a federal judge, who ruled that Commissioner Roger Goodell had dispensed ''his own brand of industrial justice'' in finding that Brady played a role in the deflating of footballs below the allowable limit…