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Originally Posted by FanningTheFlames
If you consider the Atlanta years as part of our heritage, red and yellow has been around at least as long as St. Louis' blue and yellow, Philadelphia's orange and black, Vancouver's blue and green, NYI's and Edmonton's blue and orange.
That's just who the Flames are. Black was just a silly sales gimmick fad in the 90s.
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Black is as much a silly 90's gimmick as retros are now, started with Pittsburgh in the first Winter Classic. The Atlanta jerseys are far more abusive to the eye than the refined Flames late 80's and current retros. Plus if you want to go that route then what do you have to say about New Jersey failing to use Rockies blue?
And neither Vancouver's ugly blue/green surrender jerseys nor Edmonton's "relive the glorious 80's" jerseys look good. St. Louis doesn't wear their 80's style and the Islanders have a much better look today than in the 80's.