Tom Brady's Historic $1.39M Memorabilia Gets Broken by Joe Montana originally appeared on NESN. Add NESN as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
It's always crazy to see how much some sports memorabilia goes for.
With so many superstars in Boston sports history, especially someone like Tom Brady of the New England Patriots, fans who collect Boston memorabilia understand just how expensive these things can be.
Brady's final jersey worn in an NFL game, though with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, sold for $1.39 million at the end of 2023. That was the most expensive game-worn jersey ever sold.
That was until Joe Montana's final Super Bowl-worn jersey, when the San Francisco 49ers beat the Denver Broncos, hit the market. According to the latest, his jersey sold for $1.515 million.
“Joe Montana's final Super Bowl-worn jersey -- donned in San Francisco's 55-10 win over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXIV -- was purchased for a record-breaking $1,515,000 by Treasure Trove, the high-end alternative asset and collectibles venture announced Thursday (h/t ESPN).
“The sale surpassed the previous record held by the jersey Tom Brady wore in his last NFL game, which sold for $1.39 million in November 2023,” Angelina Martin of NBCSportsBayArea wrote.
Montana and Brady are two of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, with Brady considered the better player. Like Patriots fans, 49ers fans love their team. Montana is arguably the best player in franchise history, so it doesn't come as much of a surprise that his jersey went for that much.
Perhaps one of Brady's jerseys will go for more in the future, as there are likely a lot more out there that haven't been sold.