Tale of two Nigerian NFL players who didnt know they were brothers

DT Ogemdi Nwagbuo meets his half brother, 49ers RB Xavier Omon, for the first time.

Ogemdi Nwagbuo (San Diego Chargers) and Xavier Omon (San Francisco 49ers) were born in 1985, by different mothers but the same father. And for almost 26 years, they didn't know about the others existence.

It started, of all places, on Facebook. Delorise Omon, Xavier's mom, was catching up with an old acquaintance on the computer last winter. The man informed her that Chris Nwagbuo, Xavier's biological father, had died in 2004, and that one of his sons, a half-brother of Xavier's that he'd never met just happened to play football, too; for the San Diego Chargers. She told Omon, who then tracked down Nwagbuo and found him in December 2010.

The half brothers exchanged texts and phone calls in the months since, but had never met face-to-face until yesterday Thursday September 1 on the field during pregame.

Read more about their amazing story here