See I don't think anyone hates the colour black because it's black. One of the basic principles of good colour design is you need a primary colour and at most two accents. Once you start adding a fourth or fifth colour, the colour scheme loses focus and becomes unattractive. This works for not only sports uniforms, but fashion design, interior decorating, company logos, website design, etc.
For example, go to any half decent store in Chinook and pick out a dress shirt. It will generally have two colours and at most 3. Let's say you like a red shirt with a blue and white pattern, the sales rep there will probably tell you to match it with blue pants, since black, grey or brown would make your outfit look too busy. Same goes for furniture stores. Go into a furniture store and you'll probably see all the living room displays have 3 colours at most.
Back to the Flames uniform, using these principles, if red is going to be the team's primary colour and white is pretty much required to be on all NHL uniforms, the remaining accent colour should be either black or yellow. While a red white and black uniform looks good, it's far too common, so replacing that with yellow gives the team a unique identity.
It's not about reliving the glory years of the 80's, it's about good colour design.
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