Mustang Arena

* **Location:**12th St and Campbell Ave, Tsêhéstáno, Tetonwan CF 82001, Očéti Šakówiŋ

Mustang Arena is the newest sports arena to grace the Tsêhéstáno area, build in the early 2070's to replace the Dancing Wolf Memorial Arena that had stood in the same spot since the 2050's, replacing the Seven Fires Civic Auditorium (which still stands downtown and serves as a venue for concert gigs and minor league sports) which itself had supplemented pre-Awakening City of Cheyenne Ice and Events Center.

Built in 2073 as the home for the Mustangs, the latest team added to the Western Conference of the World Combat Cyclists League, Mustang Arena seats up to 85,000 spectators and serves as the home for three of Tsêhéstáno's professional sports franchises, the Mustangs (Combat Biking), the Arrows (Urban Brawl) and the Raiders (Unkcela pte). Each of these sports has completely different needs as far as fields go, but Mustang Arena was built to be configurable to ANY major league sport.

The Arena itself is property of the Nakhoda  Tribe, run for the common profit. This has led to a number of tense negotiations over leasing rights, advertising rights, and scheduling conflicts between the Nakhoda and the owners of the franchises.

### Teams

**Mustangs (Combat Biking):**The newest and most popular team to play Mustang Arena, the Mustangs are a bit of a paradox. An expansion team, the Mustangs had an almost ruinously bad first season in '73 followed by lackluster performances last season and this season ('75). Fans often pour blame for the Mustangs' poor performance on the current leadership of the team, especially reviled is General Manager Jim Great Knife, and hating on Great Knife has become a popular pastime for radio and matrix discussions of local sports.

However, as the newest acquisition in Tsêhéstáno, they remain wildly popular locally. Because of the popularity of the Mustangs, all home games are always sold out, and the game is always broadcast live to the rest of the Očéti Šakówiŋ. For outsiders, getting tickets to a game can be difficult, often requiring going through scalpers who mark up the cost of the tickets by as much as two hundred percent.

Currently, the Ohmésêhese tribe are the primary owners of the Mustangs, but two current sitting Wichasa Yatapika on the Seven Council Fires are also minority co-owners of the franchise.

**Arrows (Urban Brawl):**Almost as popular as the Mustangs are the top-rated Arrows, Tsêhéstáno's championship winning Urban Brawl team. The Arrows' reliance on recruiting decorated ex-SDF (especially former Wildcats) has served them so well that its a common joke to refer them as the "Sixth Branch" of the Očéti Šakówiŋ military.

And like the SDF, the Arrows are known for their victories. Led by their superstar Blaster Stands-on-a-Hill, a hero of the Tsimshian Crisis, and MVP Outrider Jack 'Half-Blood' Nelson, recruited from an Anglo reservation, the Arrows have maintained their position as a powerhouse in the North American Urban Brawl Association, winning the Super Brawl last year (the team's 4th since its founding in the early '50's) and only losing out to the Rhine Valley Drakes in the '74 World Cup.

**Raiders (Unkcela pte):**On the other end of the spectrum from the Mustangs are the benighted Tsêhéstáno raiders. One of the very first professional Unkcela pte franchises ever formed, the Raiders are famous for losing the very first National championships in 2033, and for not returning to the Nationals for another ten years, when they lost, again, this time by a single point to the Saamis Cougars in 2044. These early losses has fostered an image of the Raiders as the constant underdogs of the Dakotah Conference (not unlike the reputation born by the baseball team 'The Chicago Cubs' in the 21st Century). The money poured into rehabilitating the team's reputation, as well as the four Conference Championships and two Continental Championships have not managed to shift the 'lovable losers' image of the team, an image that often causes opponents to underestimate the well-funded and sharply-honed machine that is the modern raiders.

The Raiders have already won the Dakotah Conference championships (in a landslide victory over the *Táx óparash* War Band) and are track to represent the Eastern Division in the North American Finals at the end of the year.

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