{"id":5863,"date":"2016-03-08T00:45:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T00:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/03\/08\/see-the-best-minnesota-high-school-hockey-hair-featuring-lots-of-mullets\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T00:45:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T00:45:06","slug":"see-the-best-minnesota-high-school-hockey-hair-featuring-lots-of-mullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/see-the-best-minnesota-high-school-hockey-hair-featuring-lots-of-mullets\/","title":{"rendered":"See The &#039;Best Minnesota High School Hockey Hair&#039; Featuring Lots Of Mullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/03\/07\/469554753\/see-the-best-minnesota-high-school-hockey-hair-featuring-lots-of-mullets?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">Laura Wagner<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>[embedded content]<\/div>\n<div><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Texas has their Friday night lights, Indiana has their barnyard hoops \u2014 here in Minnesota, it&#8217;s the land of 10,000 locks,&#8221; says the narrator in the intro of the &#8220;Best Minnesota High School Hockey Hair&#8221; awards video. &#8220;Hockey is king.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The competition to crown the best hair was stiff this year, but in the end, a quartet from Burnsville, Minn., took the top spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At No. 1, I&#8217;m sure this will be controversial, but hockey&#8217;s a team game and what Burnsville did is special,&#8221; the narrator says. &#8220;If you watch this \u2014 they&#8217;re going to show how deep their lineup is. They&#8217;re about to go back to back: beard, mullet, ginger, Afro. That&#8217;s like a hockey team going four lines deep. It&#8217;s unbelievable. These guys are like the super group of salad; they are like the Village People of hockey hair \u2014 look at this. All in a row. Burnsville, love ya.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Salad \u2014 for the uninitiated \u2014 is another way of saying lettuce, which of course, is slang for a bro&#8217;s long hair. Other synonyms: arugula, flow.<\/p>\n<p>The video, created by &#8220;Game On! Minnesota,&#8221; is the <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SmucWOLnAb4\">fifth annual video<\/a>. It features appearances from ESPN&#8217;s hockey analyst Barry Melrose, &#8220;a guy that used to tuck his mullet into his dress shirt,&#8221; and New York Islanders&#8217; winger Matt Martin, &#8220;who knows a thing or two about great hair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/03\/07\/469554753\/see-the-best-minnesota-high-school-hockey-hair-featuring-lots-of-mullets?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"See The &#039;Best Minnesota High School Hockey Hair&#039; Featuring Lots Of Mullets\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/03\/07\/469554753\/see-the-best-minnesota-high-school-hockey-hair-featuring-lots-of-mullets?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>[embedded content]<\/div>\n<div><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Texas has their Friday night lights, Indiana has their barnyard hoops \u2014 here in Minnesota, it&#8217;s the land of 10,000 locks,&#8221; says the narrator in the intro of the &#8220;Best Minnesota High School Hockey Hair&#8221; awards video. &#8220;Hockey is king.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The competition to crown the best hair was stiff this year, but in the end, a quartet from Burnsville, Minn., took the top spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At No. 1, I&#8217;m sure this will be controversial, but hockey&#8217;s a team game and what Burnsville did is special,&#8221; the narrator says. &#8220;If you watch this \u2014 they&#8217;re going to show how deep their lineup is. They&#8217;re about to go back to back: beard, mullet, ginger, Afro. That&#8217;s like a hockey team going four lines deep. It&#8217;s unbelievable. These guys are like the super group of salad; they are like the Village People of hockey hair \u2014 look at this. All in a row. Burnsville, love ya.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Salad \u2014 for the uninitiated \u2014 is another way of saying lettuce, which of course, is slang for a bro&#8217;s long hair. Other synonyms: arugula, flow.<\/p>\n<p>The video, created by &#8220;Game On! Minnesota,&#8221; is the <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SmucWOLnAb4\">fifth annual video<\/a>. 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