Utah AD) bought them and they never saw the light of day.

The saddest part to me was the way the Utah media just went along with the "bad BYU fan" narrative and protected the U of U AD employee (rumored to have been a Whittingham son) that accosted the BYU fan, and then took and destroyed his phone. They also initially reported it was a BYU fan accosting Mrs. Whittingham when, in reality, she merely got caught in the scuffle between the BYU fan and the attacking U of U AD employee.


Edit:
I searched through my old files and found this copy of a Daily Herald report after the incident:
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Unholy war rages on after final play Dec 1, 2009.
Heidi Toth -

Rumors that put Utah coach Kyle Whittingham's family in the middle of a melee after Saturday's game aren't accurate, police said, although a picture showed his wife and daughter close to an incident that broke out in the stands.

Lt. Arnold Lemmon with the BYU Police Department said they received two related complaints on Saturday. A BYU fan told police he was taking pictures with his cell phone when a member of the Utes' sideline staff grabbed the phone, and a cameraman was on the field taking pictures of the team when the same person demanded that he stop taking pictures. "Who that person is, we don't know right now," Lemmon said.

The department has a name and is investigating the two incidents, he said. No one involved Whittingham's family in any way, even though online message boards and sports talk radio have thrown the allegations into the public arena.

Liz Abel, the sports information director for the University of Utah, said the department had no response to any of the incidents that happened at the game.

According to the police report, BYU student [name redacted] called police at about 9 p.m. Saturday to report that a Utah fan had stolen his $500 Blackberry after the game. The man came up to him as he was taking pictures with his phone, grabbed it and made a motion as if to throw it, but [name redacted] never saw the phone leave the man's hand.

He then grabbed the man and called for an officer, according to the report; a fight ensued, and [name redacted] was hit in the jaw, though he was not sure who hit him. A cameraman had recorded the entire incident. The cameraman told police that the same man had punched his video camera and broken it as well as stolen his hat and injured his face. Both men identified the same man, who was affiliated with the team, as attacking them, and said they reported the incident to a nearby University of Utah police officer who did not search or detain the man.

There were a few other scuffles, which was bound to happen with the 20,000 fans who rushed the field after the game, Lemmon said. No one was arrested, and with more than 30 BYU and Utah police officers on the sidelines controlling the teams, it went well, he said.

"We were just trying to maintain some order," he said.