Joe Montana’s ‘The Drive’ jersey sells for record $1.212 million

The jersey worn by Corridor of Fame quarterback Joe Montana in not one, however two Tremendous Bowl victories by the San Francisco 49ers has offered for $1.212 million with purchaser’s premium, obliterating the report paid for a soccer jersey at public sale.

The jersey was brokered via collectibles market Goldin. The earlier report was the $480,000 paid for a 2021 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tom Brady jersey in January 2022 — additionally brokered by Goldin.

Montana first wore the now record-breaking jersey in Tremendous Bowl XIX, through which the Niners defeated the Miami Dolphins 38-16, after which 4 years later in Tremendous Bowl XXIII, through which Montana engineered a game-winning 92-yard drive — famously generally known as “The Drive” — to guide the Niners previous the Cincinnati Bengals 20-16.

The morning of the latter Tremendous Bowl, Montana’s spouse, Jennifer, pulled the jersey from a scrapbook and packed it in Joe’s stadium bag with a notice: “Possibly you wish to put on it once more.” So he did.

Montana’s jersey from Tremendous Bowl XXIV — nonetheless the widest margin of victory in Tremendous Bowl historical past at 55-10 in favor of the 49ers over the Denver Broncos — additionally offered for $720,000 simply after midnight into Thursday.

“It is solely proper that the 2 biggest quarterbacks of all-time are nonetheless buying and selling off information, even in retirement,” Ken Goldin, founding father of the eponymous market, mentioned in a press release. “Montana was already in rarefied air with 4 championship rings and three Tremendous Bowl MVPs — [and] with the record-breaking sale of his Tremendous Bowl XXIII jersey, Montana has surpassed Tom Brady on high of that mountain.”

The jersey sale was a part of a month-long public sale of Montana’s private memorabilia assortment, which included letters of authenticity from Montana himself and/or outdoors authenticators.

Among the many objects in that assortment included (all figures together with purchaser’s premium):

• Montana’s uniform worn in his remaining performed recreation with the 49ers ($232,800) and a signed helmet from his remaining recreation with the crew, which he did not play ($121,200)
• The ball from his remaining San Francisco landing cross ($43,214)
• His signed Kansas Metropolis Chiefs uniform from his remaining NFL recreation ($92,400)
• Montana’s highschool jersey ($36,000)
• His Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame jacket ($36,000) and bust ($14,401)
• His “twice-signed, inscribed” Tremendous Bowl XXIII “Final Drive” playbook ($10,200)

The offered objects within the 94-lot public sale, together with Montana’s recreation used and signed Notre Dame helmet from the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 1, 1979, introduced in additional than $3.7 million.