http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...-bowl/1872691/

Flacco didn't realize the irony of the exchange until a few years later.

"Your brother is a great quarterback," the runner said.

"OK, cool," Flacco replied.

Russell Wilson then stepped off the bag, and eventually away from baseball, back to a football career with Wisconsin and later the NFL, where he just completed a sensational rookie season quarterbacking the Seattle Seahawks.