If you doubt whether today's kids are highly impressionable, the stuff that went down Thursday at the Scripps National Spelling Bee should remove those doubts faster than you can say N-I-H-A-R.
That's Nihar Janga, swaggering co-champion, instant internet celebrity — and major Dez Bryant fan. Janga, 11, threw up Bryant's signature "X" gesture after a clutch make late in his showdown with Jairam Hathwar.
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This, after a night of dabbing and Running Man Challenges and trash talk and mind games by the school-age contenstants.