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This little fan sure got his money’s worth.
Ex-Giant Brandon Jacobs made good on his promise to repay a New Jersey boy who broke his piggy bank in a failed effort to keep the running back from bolting to San Francisco.
Jacobs, who now plays for the 49ers, returned to New Jersey this week to pack up some of his belongings — and hang out with 6-year-old Joseph Armento, who had sent Jacobs $3.36 when he heard talks between Jacobs and the Giants broke down over money.
Jacobs, accompanied by his 5-year old son, Brayden, spent nearly two hours Wednesday with Joseph and his 4-year-old brother, Nick, at the Jump On In bounce house in Boonton, NJ.
“It was just us in the whole place and we were just going room to room — just bouncing and flipping all over the place, hitting each other with balls, sweating, our shirts filthy,’’ Jacobs told the Sacramento Bee. “We were just dirty, stinky boys, you know?”
Joseph’s mom, Julie, was thrilled that her sons got to spend time with the big kid.
“They all played, even my husband, Mike, and Brandon, all the kids, even me,” Julie Armento told The Post. “We were all jumping around, playing together. It was just a fun time for everybody.”
Jacobs took to Twitter to further describe the experience.
“The Armento family is great,” he tweeted along with a picture. “I wish them the best.”
The feeling was mutual.
“When we were saying goodbye, it really did feel like we were saying goodbye to a new friend,” Armento said.
Jacobs received the letter and money in San Francisco and was so moved by Joseph’s devotion that he contacted Armento and promised to meet up with the boy.
Jacobs signed a one-year deal with the 49ers that can be worth $1.575 million — his base salary is $950,000 — after seven years with the Giants.
Jacobs gave Joseph a signed Giants helmet and also gave him a $5 bill, more than repaying him for the money he stuffed into an envelope in hopes that Jacobs would re-sign with the Giants.
“He had some interest in there just for being a good kid,” Jacobs said.