Wisconsin forward Nigel Hayes is one of the most charismatic, interesting figures in college sports, so is it any surprise the he’s a legit wedding crasher?
Sports Illustrated’s Brian Hamilton wrote a feature this week on Hayes and his wedding-crashing ways, where some of the anecdotes were hard to read without the Isley Brothers’ “Shout” playing in your head.
Since, the junior forward has crashed about a half-dozen weddings, so to speak; many Wisconsinites, it turns out, welcome the presence of a charismatic character from two Final Four teams. Hayes gave a speech for the Strans, whom he met a day earlier, advising them always to kiss each other goodnight. He danced with the Rices. The Vanderbergs had the best cake he’d ever eaten. He attended two weddings in one day when Garber visited Madison in early October. The receptions were perfectly timed, he says, so he could show up fashionably late to both.
The thought came to Hayes while he was suit-shopping this summer. He crashed his first wedding this July in Madison with teammates Vitto Brown and Riley Dearring.
He doesn’t have nearly as many rules for his escapades as Wedding Crashers’ John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey. All that’s on his mind, he told Hamilton, are “The Two Cs.”
Cake and cougars.
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