All business in the front and a party in the back…you have to see the winners of the USA Mullet Championships.
Before we see the present-day winners, let’s remember what it was like to live through the 80s, the heyday of the mullet. Granted, there’s a significant portion of the population that wishes this hairstyle had stayed back there. They believe it was a bad hair decade.
But the proud mullet has been making a comeback in recent years and for some people, it is their way of life…and #mulletlife.
Since 2020, there has even been the USA Mullet Championships, where people can get cash prizes for the best mullets.
The child and teen category winners have already been named for the 2022 contest. You are going to get to see them in a clip at the end of the article, so you might want to prepare yourself to be impressed and slightly horrified.
The number one spot in the kid’s division went to Emmitt Bailey of Menomonie, Wisconsin. He sported a spiked and curled combo mullet.
In the teen division, another Wisconsinite took the top prize. I thought they were cheeseheads, not cheesyheads.
Cayden Kershaw of Wausau barely eked out a win with less than 20 votes separating him from second place. But he proudly sported a feathered look that took many right back to the 80s.
According to the Mullet Championship website…hold on, don’t rush there right now…the mullet predates the 1980s.
“According to some historians, the mullet has been around since at least Ancient Greece, where the style was as much for function as it was for fashion. Cropped hair around the face with longer locks in the back allowed for both visibility and a protective layer of hair for your neck. Homer even described a haircut that sounds eerily familiar in The Iliad: ‘their forelocks cropped, hair grown long at the backs.’ The Greeks weren’t the only ones sporting the mullet, though. There is evidence that Neanderthals and our oldest ancestors would wear this ‘do,’ as well.”
Ok, thanks for sticking with this article so far, you can watch the clip now…
