![]() ![]() In 2015, I quit my job at UVA as a fundraiser for the School of Nursing and did a trip to visit all 59 U.S. I think I got the last laugh on that one.ģ. I embraced the joke so hard that I started buying wolf shirts, giving them to others, and gave a TedX talk about wolf shirts. In college, I won the “Most Likely to Wear a Wolf Shirt” superlative in my fraternity as a joke. The girl I asked decided not to go with me.Ģ. For prom my senior year of high school I had a mullet and a “Dumb and Dumber” tux complete with ruffle shirt, top hat and cane. Is this the first time you’ve done something boneheaded?ġ. Nabors’ mullet helped get him selected to be hypnotized onstage at McIntire Amphitheater by Tom DeLuca, who has for years entertained students at the beginning of fall semester. We even made “Tom Pick the Mullet” signs and I was chosen to be hypnotized on stage by Tom DeLuca. I encouraged all of my first-year residents to not be nervous about being in a new place with new people, so I let them cut my hair into a mullet and spent the first couple of weeks around Grounds sporting it. My second year at UVA I was a resident assistant in Dobie dorm. Can you trace your mullet devotion to a time at UVA?Ī. It is truly an internationally loved and supported haircut. I don’t know that I look up to any one person, as much as I love the fact that the mullet is appreciated by people in so many walks of life and industries. Who should I pick? Andre Agassi, Billy Ray Cyrus, Patrick Swayze, Mario Lopez, Brad Pitt, Seinfeld, Ellen, David Bowie, Zendaya, Wayne Gretzky, David Beckham, John Stamos, Mel Gibson, Chuck Norris, Charlie Sheen and Neil Patrick Harris. Oh, I love this question! For Halloween this year I am going to do the week of the mullet and dress up like seven of the following. Are there people in pop culture with mullets that you have looked up to over the years and why?Ī. I cut my facial hair to match the David Spade character and messaged/tagged him on Instagram asking him if he would be my mullet coach. Well, there is the Mississippi Mudflap, the Tennessee Tailgate, the Kentucky Waterfall, the Joe Dirt and so many more. ![]() Can you describe the various mullet styles and if you went all-in on one?Ī. Funny story – I didn’t learn that my hair was naturally curly until I got my first mullet for senior prom in high school. My hair is naturally curly, but only once it grows past my shoulders. Did you get a perm or is your hair naturally curly?Ī. ![]() Luckily, I earned an automatic bid to the national championship. I used my public speaking skills gained from a 2007 J-Term class at UVA and was crowned the Colorado State Mullet Champion. Needless to say, I kept the mullet and entered the competition. Then my fellow 2007 UVA friend, Tyler Walk, texted me to ask if I was going to take my mullet to the Colorado State Championship at the State Fair. I keep my hair back on all of my video calls so they were unaware of my mullet and were a touch surprised. After Reunions, in July, I attended an all-company meeting and met many of my colleagues in person for the first time. How did you learn about the national competition?Ī. His mullet is 2 years old and nicknamed “The Colorado Hair Avalanche.” Nabors’ mane is 3 inches long in the front, buzzed on the sides and 12 inches long in the back. My friends loved it, and we had some great laughs. I attended Reunions with jorts, a T-shirt that said “I ❤️ peeing outside” and my glorious mullet. ![]() Coming out of two years of pandemic-ridden craziness, I wanted to outwardly represent what I felt like we were internally feeling. Everyone dresses up for Reunions and pretends like life is wonderful. In June of this past summer it was my 15th UVA reunion. Voting for the 2022 Mane Event closes Tuesday.Ī. Now is your chance to get reacquainted with him and even help catapult him to mullet fame by casting your vote in the competition. (Astute readers may remember Nabors from this fabulous 2015 telling of his epic 59 Weeks, 59 national parks, “Thelma and Louise”-like cross-country adventure.) So far in fact, that he has ascended to one of the great national competitions: the U.S. Darius Nabors graduated from the University of Virginia in 2007 with a degree in political philosophy, policy and law. ![]()
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