For the second year in a row, the Scripps National Spelling Bee featured co-champions. But this year, one of those co-champions celebrated like a famous Dallas Cowboys wide receiver.
Eleven-year-old Nihar Janga, who correctly spelled "gesellschaft" in order to set the sirens off and cause the confetti to come raining down, was so pumped up about his victory that he decided to "throw up the X" in homage to Cowboys wideout Dez Bryant.
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This was an obvious homage and it pleased Dez greatly.
#NiharJanga you just made my whole day buddy.. Congrats on winning the #spellingbee champ.. Some how some way I have to get you to a game #x
— Dez Bryant (@DezBryant) May 27, 2016
It's also possible that Nihar is just a terrible sport. Watch this ruthless reaction he had to Jairam Hathwar, 13, missing a word.
At least the young man came away as a winner from the whole process. It could've been much worse, as Kyle Chapman learned when he jumped on Twitter and put Scripps on blast for being soft and not understanding how to BE A MAN WHEN YOU LOOSE.
Er, lose. Oh no, Kyle.
Kyle probably learned how to spell "irony" because he was so devastated by Scripps handing him a crushing blow that his response was to curl up on the "looser's couch" right before deleting his Twitter account.
Good bye Kyle.
Twitter"Eviscerated."
"Please use it in a sentence."
"Kyle just got eviscerated by the Scripps Spelling Bee account on Twitter."
