Brady’s US$500K jersey missing

12 Feb, 2017 - 00:02 0 Views

The Sunday Mail

After a historic win in Super Bowl LI, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady realised his game-worn jersey had gone missing.The jersey has yet to be found, but experts say it could be the most valuable artifact of the modern sports era. Dave Hunt, president of Hunt Auctions, LLC, told NESN.com’s Michaela Vernava that given the significance of this particular Super Bowl win, combined with Brady’s career accomplishments, the jersey could be worth up anywhere from US$250 000 to US$500 000, which Hunt described as “staggering for a modern artifact.”

“Those are numbers usually reserved for pieces of a long-gone era ago,” Hunt said, citing Mickey Mantle and Johnny Unitas as examples. “It’s almost unheard of,” he said.

Now, a week on from the SuperBowl, there is a new twist in the case of the missing jersey. It is a twist that involves the theory that maybe the jersey wasn’t stolen at all.

Police sources involved with the investigation told TMZ that Brady’s jersey could be on the team equipment truck that bolted out of NRG Stadium after the Patriots’ victory.

Although it’s a long-shot theory, law enforcement officials are “hopeful” that the jersey is on the truck.

The Patriots sent an 18-wheel truck to Houston for the Super Bowl, and that truck was set to return to Massachusetts after the game was over.

Since the truck was under the control of the Patriots, the truck wasn’t thoroughly searched before leaving the stadium, police sources told TMZ.

Basically, the hope is that someone grabbed Brady’s jersey, threw it in a laundry basket and then the basket was placed on the truck with a bunch of other team equipment. Once the truck was packed up, the driver would’ve bolted out of Houston in order to get back to Foxborough as quickly as possible.

Even if someone called the driver and asked about Brady’s jersey, it’s not like he would stop the truck and search an entire 18-wheeler by himself.

Although an equipment staffer grabbing dirty laundry is conceivable, it seems like a long shot here because the jersey wasn’t in Brady’s locker, it was in his own personal bag, as he explained to WEEI in Boston the day after the Superbowl.

“Someone stole my jersey. I put it in my bag and I went in (the locker room) ,I walked back to my bag and it was gone. Same thing happened two years ago. That sucks, but, oh well.” – NESN/CBS

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