Brady didn't think he'd ever recover lost Super Bowl jersey

The crowning achievement of Tom Brady's career so far, a record fifth Super Bowl title for a quarterback, was soured by the theft of his jersey from his locker at NRG Stadium after February's triumph.

What ensued was a globe-trotting investigation spearheaded by the FBI and NFL security, ending with Brady's historic jersey being retrieved months later in Mexico, in the possession of a member of the international media.

Brady talked about his side of the experience in an interview this week with Fox Sports' Jay Glazer.

"I didn't think I'd ever see it again," Brady told Glazer, per Tyler Sullivan of 247sports. "And then within a week I had started to hear like, 'Oh, they may be on the right track.' It took quite a while to kind of figure out the process and no one would really give me much information.

"I had to talk to the FBI. I had to talk to the people in the Houston Police Department and they obviously were onto it. They didn't give me much inclination to say that they think it's in Mexico. Before you know it they said, 'Well, we've got some good news. We recovered the jersey.' Mr. Kraft gave it to me at his house this summer."

Having nearly lost some of his most valuable memorabilia, Brady won't make the same mistake again.

"I think what it means for us players is that we've got to be safer," Brady said. "In the locker room we've got to be safe bringing stuff in. There's a lot of valuable things in our bags, in our lockers and people have access that you never have idea. Obviously, the person had been doing it for a long time so ... I mean, I've learned a lesson. There's obviously no valuables going into the locker room or things that really matter or you care about, so you got to put them in a safer place than I originally thought."

Brady will return to the stadium where his jersey was stolen when the New England Patriots visit the Houston Texans for their second preseason game Saturday.