While the Rams were knocked out of Super Bowl contention on Sunday, the real winner this year will be… Joe Montana.
Sources say that the four-time Super Bowl winning QB usually racks up hundreds of thousands in appearances during a normal Super Bowl. But with the big game at Levi’s Stadium, home of the 49ers, he’s bound to rack up even more.
This year, Montana will appear at events at the Orpheum Theatre with fellow football legends and he’ll also host a celeb golf tournament with his longtime 49ers teammate Jerry Rice. Said an insider, “Oh, he’s definitely gonna be paid” this year, adding that Montana could rake in $100,000 per day at events from Tuesday through Super Bowl Sunday.
We hear he’s also bringing his four Super Bowl trophies to a pop-up dinner hosted by legendary NYC, LA and Miami red sauce joint Rao’s. (We hear Montana is attending this one gratis as a friend of owners Frank Pelligrino Jr and Ron Straci, as well as the “Joe Montana Of Meatballs” exec chef Dino Gatto. But we guess he’ll get some free lemon chicken at least.)
Rao’s will run for five nights for expected guests like Rice, Eli and Peyton Manning, Rob Gronkowski, Troy Aikman and more. Serial entrepreneur and Real SLX founder Kenny Dichter is stirring the sauce, we’ll say.
A rep for Montana did not get back to us.