Vai Sikahema Has Good Taste

VAI SIKAHEMA has mixed emotions about his nephew, "Napoleon Dynamite" starJon Heder.

"I love him as a person. He's a great kid," the NBC-10 sports director and former Philadelphia Eagle said. But, as his wife and kids howled with laughter while watching the movie, Vai says he "just didn't get it."

Vai, whose wife, Keala, is the younger sister of Heder's father Jim, (a Temple med school grad) also gives a thumbs-down to "Benchwarmers," out now, in which Heder stars alongside Rob Schneider and David Spade.

"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.

We told Vai that we didn't like it either the first time around, but it grew on us on second viewing.

But he stands firm. "I'm never gonna watch it again," he said.

Their relation was reported in the April 10 Sports Illustrated in which Heder calls Vai his "famous relative." Vai hasn't seen Heder for several years, but plans to see the actor this summer.