‘Joe Dirt’ tribute takes top prize in Pennsylvania Farm Show mullet contest

A packed crowd celebrated the much-maligned but enduring mullet hairstyle Monday in a contest at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg.

The short-in-the-front, long-in-the-back coiffure, once the province of Canadian hockey players and hair metal bands, attracted about 150 competitors and more than a thousand spectators for the day’s “mane” attraction.

The top award, in the form of the rear bumper of a Corvette, went to 10-year-old Drew Fleschut of Dallas, Pennsylvania – who wore a red-and-black shirt in an homage to movie character Joe Dirt and carried Joe’s trademark mop…

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