It's probably a good thing there weren't as many cameras there for that game as there were for the game versus Miami the following week. Would Ty Detmer have been able to play?

DC is Dylan Cannon; TD is Ty Detmer:

DC: So, everyone remembers the win against Miami during your Heisman year. But most fans don’t remember that the week before you guys got into a bench-clearing brawl at UTEP. What caused the brawl?

TD: I think there was a cheap shot against (BYU wide receiver) Matt Bellini on our sideline. It got started over there on our sideline. There were maybe a few more questionable hits after that and next thing you know, their bench is coming from their sideline all the way over to ours. It was pretty crazy.

DC: Did you get in on the action?

TD: Uhh … yeah, I did. (Laughs). Actually, there was a picture the next day in the sports page. My mom had come in for the game and there was a picture of me throwing an uppercut on the front page. It was just a heat-of-the-moment, protecting your guy type thing. There were a couple of guys on him (Detmer’s teammate) so I grabbed one off of him and it was kind of a free-for-all at that point. (Laughs). We actually had brawls against them, San Diego State and Utah State in different years while I was there. So, three bench-clearers, which is something you don’t see too often anymore.

DC: Referring to the brawl against UTEP, Miami safety Charles Pharms said, “they (BYU) always seem to get into scuffles. Their games are better than a (Mike) Tyson fight.” Do you think that you, personally, and your teammates played angry and with a chip on your shoulder?

TD: I don’t know; it never seemed like that going into games. Depending on who we were playing, there was some bitterness from the opponents. We were the type of team that was not going to take cheap shots. So, our guys would rush to each other’s defense. That’s how things usually got started. It wasn’t so much that we played with a chip on our shoulders. We were out there and we were going to protect our teammates. Other teams had a dislike for BYU because of our success and it seemed like every week, in the WAC especially, teams were getting up for us and it would be their big game of the year oftentimes.

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