The man of many records in his legendary football career is still setting more 28 years later.
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana’s jersey which he wore during two of his four Super Bowl victories sold for $1.2 million, the highest ever paid for a football jersey at auction.
The jersey, through collectibles marketplace Goldin, beat out the previous record held by Tom Brady whose jersey sold for $480,000 in January 2022, according to NBC.
Montana’s red No. 16 jersey was initially on the auction block for $250,000.
Montana wore the jersey specifically during Super Bowl XIX, when he defeated Dan Marino’s Miami Dolphins in 1985, and against the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl XXIII in 1989.
The auction that shattered Brady’s record will be tacked on to a months-long auction of Montana’s personal items — one being his Super Bowl XXIV jersey which sold for $720,000.
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