3-year-old Wins Minnesota Mullet Contest

Three-year-old Brady Anderson is the winner of this year's Minnesota Mullet Contest sponsored by Hockey Moms Magazine.

I'm not sure what's more wonderful, the fact that parents are still doing this to their children or that grown men and women are still trying to fool the world into thinking they're all "business in the front, party in the back." Oh, Minnesota moms! What a bunch of kidders you are . . .

Brady's brother Blake won in 2005, so this is obviously a family tradition. I can't find any photos of past winners online, but commenters at Free Republic have helpfully supplied a choice few of their own:

The eighties will never die.

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Comments

[magpie]

I'm glad I already have kids, cause these pictures have made me sterile!

[DianaCLT]

A mullet AND a man-thong? Oooh! I think I've found my dream man!

(Oh, wait...did I say dream? Cuz I meant Nightmare!)

[Lori]

It is SIGNIFICANTLY more difficult to hide the fact that I am blog-reading at work when I am snorting and laughing and then choking on the water I was drinking before the snorting/laughing.

Also, my eyes and visual memory will now require scouring due to mullet/man thong (and now my memory that controls text will ALSO require scouring)...

(HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH... snort. gasp. cough)

[Liana]

I love that only the guy with the mullet is also wearing a thong (not even the women in the shot are!).
Is there a connection between mullets and thongs....?

Also, seriously, styling one's child's hair like that borders on SOME kind of abuse or something. I mean, adults can do whatever they want with their own hair (sadly, sometimes) but forcing that on a child? That's years of scary childhood pictures!

[Baileyswedishfish]

Hey Hey Dere! Now you just wait a darn tootin minute der, ya...you betcha! I'm a Minnesota (step)mom and I'll be tellin' ya dere's nothing wrong with a little business in the front, party in da back..ya!

[Jennifer]

Oh god...we're not all toothless, ice-loving, lutefisk eating, god-forsaken-hair-styled, hockey-worshipping hicks up here. Please don't think this contest represents us all!!! (besides, the kid is NOT supporting a Minnesota team...for the love of Christ....)

[Shamelessly Sassy]

oh, my. I'm not sure what is worse..the man thong/mullet combo, the baby mullet, or the long blonde mullet fashioned by the man with the tight faded blue jean shorts. So many options.