Big difference, those guys went to Zap to drink and party.   Whole thing started out as a joke.   Had the Mayor of Zap not gotten excited and made more out of it than it was, nothing would have happened.   Once the National Guard came in, there was no turning back and the whole situation got out of hand.

Heck Frisco, TX ran out of booze (pretty much whole city) a couple years ago when NDSU was there for one of the Championship games.    No riot, but there were a lot frantic people heading to Dallas for more booze.