Meet This Year's US Mullet Champions
These are the 2022 Kid's Divison Winners.
Although it may sound crazy, the USA Mullet Championship has been going on since 2020. Started in Michigan, the Mullet Championship has recently hit the road, touring from New York to Texas. Registration for the 2022 open division is going on now, as the kids and teen division competition recently came to a close.
The first place winner for the kids division is Emmitt Bailey from Wisconsin with 9,896 votes. Emmit told Fox News that he decided to grow a mullet after telling his mom that he wanted “cool hockey hair.” His mom, Erin Bailey, says that she was “not on board at first but he was pretty insistent.” Now she says that he wouldn’t look like Emmit without his prize winning mullet. Emmit’s desire for “cool hockey hair” led him to win the $2,500 prize.
The first place winner for the teens division is Cayden Kershaw with 3,215 votes. Cayden is a senior at Wausau West High School in Wausau, Wisconsin. After his win on Friday, he went on to win his high school football game the next day. Cayden told his local ABC News station, "My family was sitting in the living room, and then it came on TV and all the sudden my phone started blowing up like crazy." Cayden plans to donate his $1,000 prize to Peyton’s Promise, a local food bank.
These are the 2022 Teen Divison Winners.
Even though many people think the mullet was invented in the 80s, many historians believe that the mullet has been around since at least Ancient Greece. For them, it was more of a function than a fashion statement, protecting your neck from the sun while still allowing you to see. Even though the mullet has been floating in and out of trend for centuries, looking different each time, most know it as the haircut that came about in the 70s and was made popular in the 80s by rock stars and actors. Though at that point the mullet had been popular for multiple years, it didn’t actually get the name “mullet” until 1994.
Now the mullet has made a comeback. Some support the business in the front party in the back hairstyle while others hate it. Grandview’s own Mr. Amurgis said that he had a mullet in the 1980s. “I’ve seen really good ones (mullets) and really bad ones.” When asked about her taste, freshman, Allie Wahl, said “I don’t really like them… but you do you.”
People Magazine said that “one in five American men want the mullet back.” They did a survey and asked 2,000 men “If they could bring one popular hairstyle from a bygone decade back into fashion, what would they choose.” 20% would bring back the mullet, 15% would bring back “curtain bangs” and 10% would bring back the undercut.
Although people are disagreeing over support of the mullet, it’s safe to say that it’s taken America by storm with the help of the US Mullet Competition. Congratulations to this year’s winners!