The Good, the Bad and the Old Days
Chance words from a rookie prompt Terrence Angre to reflect on the birth of the Imperial League.
TERRENCE ANGREWolf Sports Senior Imperial League Correspondent
"If I can't take care of my own dragon, I shouldn't be the one riding him." Phoebe Tenryuu probably didn't intend to kick off quite the brouhaha that she did with these words at the weigh-in last weekend. After arriving so spectacularly in the old style, though, she clearly underestimated how much attention she would have drawn.
Tenryuu flew in to the weigh-in alone on Soot, without any ground personnel waiting for her, while every other team's pen swarmed with vets and attendants. It made a spectacular moment for the handful of TV cameras that are in use at the event, a pretty radical declaration for a team we weren't even sure truly existed last week. Paired with her words, which seem to have been overheard from an informal conversation – no-one has yet produced interview tape to back them up – the overall effect was a pointed critique of how things are done in the Imperial League today.
Terrence is here to... not actually be a curmudgeonly old 'kids these days' guy but kinda flirt with it sorta?
