WINDHAM, Maine — NEWS CENTER Maine has covered many a mullet in the past, but Eliott Kullman's may take the cake due to sheer size and color.
"Big Redd" is hoping his ferocious, fiery mane will garner enough votes for him to advance in the 2024 USA Mullet Championship.
Eliott, who's from Windham, started growing his luscious locks back in 2021. Although his mom wasn't a big fan at first, he said she came around eventually.
He also said he initially went to three different barbershops to have his mullet crafted and they all messed it up, but he finally found a fourth place that got it right. After that, it was off to the races.
"I'm glad I got to have a mullet because it's rare, a ginger with a mullet," he wrote in his bio on the USA Mullet Championship website. "I get a lot of compliments and a lot of people helped me understand and take care of my mullet."
Eliott said he gets his hair cleaned up every four weeks, and he plans to keep the mullet—which he refers to as a "rooster mullet"—for the foreseeable future.
"It's so nice to talk about it and a lot of people like taking pictures and talking about my mullet," his bio reads. "It just amazes me and I am going to keep my mullet for a long time."
While Big Redd clearly believes his mullet is worthy of the title, it's also clear that he's a lover and supporter of the hairstyle in general. The more mullets, the better.
"I love how there are multiple types of mullets as well it's pretty cool," he wrote.
People can vote online once every 24 hours. Click here to vote for Eliott.
The competition also encourages voters to include a monetary donation, with 100 percent of the donations going to Jared Allen's Homes for Wounded Warriors. The nonprofit organization provides critically injured United States military veterans with injury-specific, accessible, and mortgage-free homes.
Some other notable Maine mullets we've covered in the past include 6-year-old Vance Pelkey, a Mattawamkeag boy who chased the Mullet Champ title last year.
Congressman Jared Golden also made mullet-related news two years ago when he shotgunned a Bud Light with a mullet-rocking UMaine senior and lobsterman from Steuben.