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Tyrone Butterfield is known for one of the odder moments in Michigan history - the most fortuitous dropped pass the school has seen.

His drop at the end of the 1995 Pigskin Classic against Virginia allowed for one more play and one of the more famous end-game catches in football history made by Mercury Hayes to give Michigan a 18-17 win over the Cavaliers.

Butterfield eventually left Michigan and transferred to a Division I-AA school, but he'll forever be known in Ann Arbor for that play.

Q: What have you been up to since you transferred from Michigan and graduated college?

Tyrone Butterfield: When I transferred from Michigan, I went to Tennessee State University, played there two years. I was a I-AA All-American two years. And after I left there, had some stints in the CFL with Saskatchewan, played in the XFL with New York/New Jersey. Had some workouts with Atlanta and Tampa Bay and Cleveland and played in the Arena League for a while with Nashville. Now, for the last about five years, I own a construction company down here in Florida. It’s called Butterfield and Mitchell Construction, or BAM Construction. We’re a commercial and residential contractor, a general contractor.

Q: How’d you get involved with that? Is that something you always thought you’d get involved with?
TB: I kind of fell into it. My partner is a guy I grew up with. He’s a construction and engineering major. I was a business major. We kind of talked about doing some different business because I was actually coaching for a while, and I was looking into getting into college coaching. Kind of fell into construction pretty easily, because that was what he was into. He was working for one of the largest companies in the United States as a construction manager. We talked about it, and he was like, ‘Look man, we can get our own thing together. I really know how it works. You understand how to run a business, get new business. Let’s really put our heads together and kind of work for ourselves.’ We did, and it was a little rough patch at the beginning, but we’ve been doing really well right now the last two or three years.

Q: What types of buildings have you built?
TB: We can build from a house all the way to a 40-story high-rise, whatever needs to be built. We do custom homes, actually. We’ve done them in South Florida and Central Florida. Right now, we do rehab work for Fannie Mae. All the foreclosures in the state of Florida and south Georgia, we are the contractor that goes in and rehabs the house after people get upset it goes into foreclosure, kick the walls in, and we rehab it so they can put it on the market. We’re doing a church right now, a brand new church from the ground up. We’re building a nightclub right now, one of the largest nightclubs in Florida, a 25,000-square foot nightclub. So it’s a wide variety. As a general contractor, we can pretty much do anything.

Q: What’s the coolest thing the company has built or the most famous thing?
TB: The coolest thing is probably going to be this nightclub in Orlando. It’s probably going to be the largest nightclub in the state of Florida, size-wise. The owner was a NFL player, played for Jacksonville, played for the Jaguars for some years. He kind of bought the club because Orlando is going to be the host for the 2012 All-Star Game. He’s also a concert promoter, and all of the biggest acts out there, this guy gets. They are kind of looking at it as a venue like that. It’s a two-story, 25,000-square foot nightclub that’s going to be four clubs up top, one down below. It’s going to be unbelievable. If you come to Central Florida, this is going to be where you have to go. All of the major stars and everybody, that’ll be the place to come to. So right now that one, and we did some work with the Fort Lauderdale airport, where Southwest Airlines is and also Spirit Airlines, their terminal.

Q: What is next for you in the future? Stay with this? Go into coaching?
TB: I’ve been talking about doing the coaching a little bit, too, because it’s still in my blood. A lot of the coaches that have coached me in college I’ve talked to. It just has to be a good situation, because I have my wife and my kids here. And for me to leave my business, it’s at a point where I have a lot of people working for me where I don’t have to be here on a day-to-day basis. I really want to coach in college. That’s kind of the one goal in life, that I want to coach college football. I’ve been getting some opportunities, it just hasn’t been the right opportunity for me to kind of uproot the family and move. The initial place, I’m looking to do something here in Florida. That would be the easiest transition unless there’s something in Nashville or something in Michigan. Those are kind of, that’s kind of the easiest transition for me. But the construction, this company, we’re going to have this company until we can’t run it anymore. This work has been constant, and it’s what feeds the family. Coaching is just something I love and want to do. I won’t do it for free but, actually, I do it for free with my brother. His Little League team, I coach them out there when I get a chance. But on that level, I definitely want to coach college football.

Q: (Question paraphrased) One last thing, that second-to-last play in the Michigan-Virginia game in 1995, what was going through your mind on that play?
TB: "What I was actually thinking was it was set up to be a corner route to go to Mercury (Hayes) from the beginning on that play. It might have been Amani (Toomer) on that side, originally. ... We were trying to get him matched him up on the other side away from Ronde Barber. The corner on that side, we were trying to get away from him. I was just supposed to run a wheel route and just hold the safety right there. It was a one-on-one route on the outside. When I ran my route, I actually kind of ran it a little bit lazy, so the safety would cover me up. So I it would be a one-on-one. I just looked and saw the ball coming.

"The natural first reaction is to try and catch the ball. As I’m thinking, which it happens at the same time, knock it down. I did neither one. It popped up, and so it was like ‘Oh, man, thank God that guy didn’t catch the ball’ because in that split-second I had the natural reaction to put your hands up and catch the ball and then knock it down. The guy didn’t catch it, so it gave us another shot."

Michael Rothstein covers University of Michigan sports for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at (734) 623-2558, by e-mail at michaelrothstein@annarbor.com or follow along on Twitter @mikerothstein