There is a blue collar subculture built around NFL season tail gating and game attendance and the participants live for it. They plan their lives around it. They save money the rest of the year just to buy tickets and tailgate passes like some people make vacation travel plans. Their life is working all week, prepping Saturday, then getting raging drunk and over fed more or less every other Sunday for 4 months.
I wouldn't call it blue collar. I'd just call it the arm pit of society.
I can't believe this stupidity hasn't been refuted. Selective editing on the video there. It doesn't show the SMU cheerleaders (you can make your own jokes about that) pushing Hood (the CT) over one kneeling behind him, which precipitated the saber drawing. Hood never should have drawn his saber, but that had as much lethal ability as a Betty Davis roundhouse kick. Anyway, the SMU cheerleaders had no business on the field, and that is what Hood was enforcing.
The fact that Hood took all the blame and punishment for this incident was horrendous. A&M should have told SMU to leave their cheerleaders at home for every future game at Kyle. Hood should have lost OD privileges but I wouldn't have punished him beyond that. It was all PR.