VAI SIKAHEMA has mixed emotions about his nephew, “Napoleon Dynamite” star Jon Heder.

“I love him as a person. He’s a great kid,” the NBC-10 sports director told us yesterday. But, as his wife and kids howled with laughter while watching the movie, Vai says he “just didn’t get it.”
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“My nephew Reno Mahe and a lot of other Eagles would all go around quoting the ‘Dynamite,’ ” says Vai, a former Iggle himself, who didn’t tell the Birds about his connection to Heder because he was embarrassed after seeing the film.

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