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Originally Posted by Otto-matic
Ideally yes, but if I recall correctly the Flames had a backlash from the media and fans when they ran black lettering on the 04 Homes when they first came out.
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From the ones that said the music is too loud and there's a draft in the Saddledome. The numbers being 5x the size of the lettering should be all that was needed to identify players from afar.
Full respect to anyone I see at the 'Dome that has those, as most of those are preorders, sight unseen from summer 2003. The team wearing those on the ice lasted between 10-12 home games in 2003 (they wore them Nov 22 2003 as per the picture below, but by Dec 1 2003, they were white letters), although for the next few months after you could still get the Flames to put on black letters instead of white at the Fan Attic
Regardless, the jersey, for continuity sake, was originally designed with black letters as that went with the black shoulder and back numbers and went with the black C, same outlining and everything. But the black numbers and C stayed, and that's always sort of bugged me, at least the numbers staying black. (as much as something like that can). Though the Flames had a chance to redo that with the Edge style jerseys, though they just kept using the stockpile they had of the same number and name font from the 2004 jerseys.
That's why if and when the Flames do do a new jersey, the name and number font are changed (they first appeared 15 years ago) and the coloring issue is standardized.
